Getting It Published Quotes

“Here’s a tip more academic authors could heed: don’t make “originality” your only goal. If there is one common failure in letters from first-time authors it’s the suggestion that nothing like this manuscript has ever been attempted. If you’ve found a dark corner of the field to mine as your own, you might have lucked into something valuable and overlooked”
― William P. Germano, Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books