Publishing Process
How a Book is Made
How does a book go from a bunch of Word documents to a printed and bound volume? The LPP team outline the stages of the book production process.
Pricing Strategy: Navigating the Complexity of Multiple Markets
Lived Places Publishing must establish pricing that captures both a single, retail reader, and an institution-wide, unlimited-access group of readers which might number into the hundreds. Publisher David Parker explains how to develop a multi-channel pricing strategy.
Ebooks and Digital Distribution: What Authors Need to Know Now to Maximize Reach
Publisher and LPP co-founder David Parker explains how to create the best book title and the importance of understanding digital distribution in book publishing.
Writing Inclusively: Tips for Authors
It’s important not to exclude anyone from your audience in the way that you write. Commissioning editor Rebecca Bush offers advice and tips for authors and writers on how to be inclusive in their writing.
Diversity in Authorial Expertise: There are Many Paths to Authoring with Lived Places Publishing
Publisher David Parker and editor Rebecca Bush explore the different paths to authorship that an expert might take, and explain why they are deliberately looking for authors whose expertise is expressed outside academia, in addition to traditionally academic authorities
Book Marketing for Authors: Beginning Steps to Build Your Platform
Commissioning Editor Rebecca Bush gives an overview of simple marketing activities that any author should consider to build their audience and platform and promote their book.
Book Marketing: A Publisher’s Role and Responsibilities
David Parker explains how Lived Places Publishing provides a platform for authors to develop their relationship with their readers and supports them in the crucial step of marketing their book.
How to Work Well with Your Editor: Tips for Authors
Commissioning Editor Rebecca Bush lays out the different types of editor that an author might encounter and provides some helpful tips to help you build a mutually beneficial working relationship with your editor.
Equity in Royalty and Sustainable Open Access Funding
Challenging the predominant publishing paradigm is never easy, but David Parker pulls back the curtain on a new model in open access publishing, centered around equity and open access for course materials.
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Invisible Disabilities: Overcoming Biases and Other Outdated Notions
Invisible disabilities have long been viewed as being less severe than their visible counterparts, and this issue persists to this day. There is still the outdated notion that your disability must cause you physical pain or infirmity to be believed, accepted, and supported.
Overhauling the American Prison Industry: A View From 20 Years of Incarceration
LIVE EVENT: Nov 14, 2024 | In this conversation between Chris McAuley, Black Studies Collection Editor at Lived Places Publishing and Maurice Tyree, author of The Darkest Parts of my Blackness: A Journey of Remorse, Reform, Reconciliation, and (R)evolution (co-authored with Katie Singer), they examine the numerous problems and possible solutions to the disaster that is the American carceral state.
Recognising the Unseen: Supporting Gestalt Language Processors in Education
Gestalt language processors (GLP) perceive and process language in a non-linear, holistic manner. Dr. Jaime Hoerricks sheds light on the often-overlooked struggles of GLPs within the traditional education system, offering innovative and practical strategies for educators and parents as well.
Ancestral Voices: Listening to My Grandmothers
by Valandra
by Professor Valandra, PhD // A look at the "intergenerational bridge" and how the author's grandparents "overcame insurmountable obstacles daily and showed our families and communities, in word and deed, how to defy the white grip of exploitation and domination of our minds, bodies, and spirits to maintain our freedom and find joy despite living in the wake."
Electoral Consequences for Black America: A Struggle on Two Simultaneous Fronts
LIVE EVENT: Oct 17, 2024 | Black Americans are uniquely placed within the phenomenon of American elections. In this conversation between Chris McAuley, Black Studies Collection Editor at Lived Places Publishing and Stephen Graves, author of At War With Politics: A Journey from Traditional Political Science to Black Politics, they examine the upcoming U.S. presidential election through the lens of Black politics.
Beneath the Veneer: The Stealthy Pervasiveness of Anti-Black Racism in a Purportedly Colorblind Society
LIVE EVENT: Sep 25, 2024 | In this conversation between Chris McAuley, Black Studies Collection Editor at Lived Places Publishing and Paul Reck, author of How Interpersonal Interactions with Young Black People Forever Altered a White Man’s Understanding of Race, they explore anti-Black racism, the assumptions that uphold it, and why it is often difficult for people to identify and challenge these racist practices.