My first lesson in #thesisintobook project. Don’t work from the thesis because you get stuck wondering, with apologies to The Clash, should it stay or should it go. Instead I’ve found it liberating to write a summary of the book I want to write. Thanks for the support @catherinejampel.bsky.social

Deeply shocked to learn of the sudden passing of brilliant human rights academic and champion @conorgearty.bsky.social I only bumped into him on Monday striding up Kentish Town Road with his lovely young daughters. As we walked together he exuded his trademark wit, warmth and charm. Such a loss

🗣️ ISSUE NINE IS OUT! Alongside Patrick Doan’s vignettes, the heart of the ERB: stories, essays, and reviews — in our peculiar design with vivid images and un-killed darlings on 'level 2'.
Take a look:
europeanreviewofbooks.com/issues/issue...

Latest issue of @europeanreview.bsky.social has interesting piece on learning from catastrophe by @sashaetkind.bsky.social and @johannagautier.bsky.social with a letter in response from me #ClimateResponsibility #Louisiana #climateimpacts

Juliet de Little points out that with recognition justice, people are only recognised when they are being recognised by gatekeepers and their knowledge and expertise is not included outside that process @rgsibg.bsky.social conference

To achieve energy justice you have to be willing to engage in lengthy governance processes among other tactics argues @vanesilla.bsky.social at @rgsibg.bsky.social conference

Super useful (free) session from @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social on how to edit your own scholarly book with clear steps to take, details available in #MakeYourManuscriptWork published yesterday from @princetonupress.bsky.social

Consolation gift from @lner.co.uk. Necessary but not sufficient

Getting a lot out of @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social’s excellent Reconsidering Reparations on the train from London to Inverness. But no tea or coffee for 8 hours as the water heater has broken down

My thesis to book journey starts with @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social at Manuscript Works who provide materials, courses & supportive yet robust advice on how to get going. I have found this incredibly useful. ‘Developmental editing’ involves review & advice on thesis shakedown & reconstruction.

Post PhD you’ll have between 80,000 - 100,000 words closely and critically read by perhaps only four people (your supervisors and examiners). You want to get your argument out in the world knowing that publishers need a text which will attract more readers than that. Where to start?