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  It is Tuesday. Time to tall turkey. Monday's madness is over, and Wednesday will take us over the hump, so Tuesday it is--for some serious discussion with authors. Tuesday talks mean to address authors in waiting and self-published authors who would like to go a more traditional route or who would at least like to take their steps with a publisher by their side. Today's topic deviates from our usual "conversation" topics of pragmatic and technical advice for authors and would-be authors, as well as those trying to be their own publishers. Instead, we want to bring to you information about a new MSI Press program that has the potential to help authors directly in significant ways: MSI Affiliates.  An MSI affiliate is an author whose book(s) the MSI Press editorial staff has accepted for inclusion in its webstore as a "friend" of the press. The high quality books of affiliates benefit in a number of ways: They are listed in the MSI Press webstore. While MSI ...

  Today's publisher's pride is not a book we published, since it is not among the lines we publish and is targeted to an academic audience that we do not service in particular (coincidentally, yes, but not by plan or purpose). However, a couple of MSI Press authors appear among the editors, so, in support, we assist in promoting the book as an affiliate book. (See information about our affiliate program .) And the book is? The recently released tome, Open Architecture Curricular Design (Corin, Leaver, and Campbell, eds.), published by Georgetown University Press. Currently, #94 in foreign language education books, it started out at #1 when it was released in July and has appeared in the Amazon top 100 list on multiple occasions. book description A guide to a textbook-free approach to world languages curriculums that will improve learning outcomes Open architecture curricular design (OACD) is a textbook-free curricular design framework for teaching and learning world languages ...

    Today's publisher's pride is not a book we published, since it is not among the lines we publish and is targeted to an academic audience that we do not service in particular (coincidentally, yes, but not by plan or purpose). However, a couple of MSI Press authors appear among the editors, so, in support, we assist in promoting the book as an affiliate book. (See information about our  affiliate program .) And the book is? The recently released tome,  Open Architecture Curricular Design  (Corin, Leaver, and Campbell, eds.), published by Georgetown University Press. Currently, #94 in foreign language education books, it started out at #1 when it was released in July and has appeared in the Amazon top 100 list on multiple occasions. book description A guide to a textbook-free approach to world languages curriculums that will improve learning outcomes Open architecture curricular design (OACD) is a textbook-free curricular design framework for teaching and learn...

    Today's publisher's pride is not a book we published, since it is not among the lines we publish and is targeted to an academic audience that we do not service in particular (coincidentally, yes, but not by plan or purpose). However, a couple of MSI Press authors appear among the editors, so, in support, we assist in promoting the book as an affiliate book. (See information about our  affiliate program .) And the book is? The recently released tome,  Open Architecture Curricular Design  (Corin, Leaver, and Campbell, eds.), published by Georgetown University Press. Currently, #94 in foreign language education books, it started out at #1 when it was released in July and has appeared in the Amazon top 100 list on multiple occasions. book description A guide to a textbook-free approach to world languages curriculums that will improve learning outcomes Open architecture curricular design (OACD) is a textbook-free curricular design framework for teaching and learn...

    Today's publisher's pride is not a book we published, since it is not among the lines we publish and is targeted to an academic audience that we do not service in particular (coincidentally, yes, but not by plan or purpose). However, a couple of MSI Press authors appear among the editors, so, in support, we assist in promoting the book as an affiliate book. (See information about our  affiliate program .) And the book is? The recently released tome,  Open Architecture Curricular Design  (Corin, Leaver, and Campbell, eds.), published by Georgetown University Press. Currently, #94 in foreign language education books, it started out at #1 when it was released in July and has appeared in the Amazon top 100 list on multiple occasions. book description A guide to a textbook-free approach to world languages curriculums that will improve learning outcomes Open architecture curricular design (OACD) is a textbook-free curricular design framework for teaching and learn...

  Jim Ostdick is a retired Earth Science teacher who lives on the ancestral lands of the Amah Mutsun Ohlone near the central California coast. In Walks Far Man: In Step with History on the Pacific Crest Trail , Ostdick recounts his Pacific Crest Trail hiking experiences in the context of a larger, more vibrant story, thousands of years in the making. His intentions are threefold: to identify and honor the indigenous tribes who occupied and traveled the lands traversed by today’s Pacific Crest Trail; to draw appreciation and respect for the cultural traditions of these tribes, and to describe, with humor and humility, his 2,650-mile walk from Mexico to Canada. Ostdick began hiking the Pacific Crest Trail at Campo, California in 2001 and crossed the Canadian border in 2009. Along the trail, he became increasingly introspective. He gradually began to feel empowered by the synthesis of self, the Earth, the Sun and wind and stars, the raging rivers, the trickling creeks, and the effects...

  Betty Lou Leaver's book, Transformative Language Learning and Teaching (see affiliate books), published by Cambridge University Press, recently received the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages book prize for Best Book in Pedagogy 2022. Leaver, Davidson, and Campbell’s  Transformative Language Learning and Teaching  is a groundbreaking volume on the theory and practice of transformative teaching in the language learning context. The world language education field has experienced many methodological upheavals corresponding to theoretical or practical paradigms over the past century. The editors of this volume distill these changes into three large patterns whose practices are based on educational philosophies the primary paradigm of which encompasses three elements: transmission, in which information flows unidirectionally from teacher to learner, resulting in rote memory, reproduction, and accuracy; (2) transaction, in which informatio...

  Omar Imady, author and poet, has produced a new book, The Celeste Experiment , to be published November 17 by Villa Magna Press. The book is available on pre-order from Amazon. We welcome this new book as an affiliate with MSI Press.  For more posts on Omar Imady, click HERE . For more posts on affiliated books, click HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .

Andrew's Awesome Adventures with His ADHD Brain by Kristin Wilcox and Andrew Wilcox has been  listed as a resource in CHADD's (Children and Adults with ADHD)  National Resource Center Library which provides a wealth of evidence-based information on ADHD. The NRC library is an affiliate member of the Network of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, and United States Department of Health and Human Services. Check it out: NRC Andrew's Awesome Adventures with His ADHD Brain About NRC BOOK AWARDS Literary Titan Gold Award Best Indie Book Award Readers' Favorite Book Award Read more posts about the Wilcoxes and their book, click  HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Interested in publishing with  MSI Press LLC ? Check out information on  how to su...

It is Tuesday. Time to tall turkey. Monday's madness is over, and Wednesday will take us over the hump, so Tuesday it is--for some serious discussion with authors. Tuesday talks mean to address authors in waiting and self-published authors who would like to go a more traditional route or who would at least like to take their steps with a publisher by their side. Today's topic focuses on what to do if a publisher tells you that your book needs work. Editors will rarely tell you this. It takes time for them to write back to you, and it takes time for them to give you specifics about your book's lack of merit for publication. How should you interpret their words when they actually communicate with you? If a publisher says that your book needs work (and nothing more), there are a few responses and interpretations: Generally, this is a kind (though it may not seem so) comment, helping you to understand why the book is being rejected rather than the typical "does not meet ou...

  Most authors think of legacy in terms of readers, reviews, and the quiet hope that their books will outlive them. And they will. Books have a way of slipping past our lifespans, finding new hands long after we’re gone. But there’s another side of legacy that authors rarely consider — the practical, invisible side that publishers see every year. It’s the part that determines whether your books continue to thrive or quietly fall into disarray after you’re no longer here to guide them. This is the legacy conversation most authors never have, but every author needs. 🌿 Your Books Will Outlive You — But Only If Someone Can Steward Them When an author dies, their books don’t vanish. They keep selling. They keep earning royalties. They keep needing decisions: reprints, rights renewals, permissions, pricing, metadata updates, and the occasional crisis that only a human can resolve. If no one is designated to handle these things, your books become orphans — still alive, but without a guar...