Amy Sherman
@andcleverness.bsky.social
acquiring editor for environmental studies, food studies, and regional books at the University of Pittsburgh Press
career in publishing resource doc: tinyurl.com/2jmmharu
bluesky list of university and indie presses: tinyurl.com/3y829vxv
career in publishing resource doc: tinyurl.com/2jmmharu
bluesky list of university and indie presses: tinyurl.com/3y829vxv
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Amy Sherman
@andcleverness.bsky.social
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📌🧵 to have them all in one place, here's a little thread of some publishing-related resources that I've created or contributed to.
First up, a doc of resources for folks early in or aspiring to a publishing career (but books & links may be interesting to/helpful for those further along, too!)
First up, a doc of resources for folks early in or aspiring to a publishing career (but books & links may be interesting to/helpful for those further along, too!)
might need to swap out my "I am not in trouble and no one is mad at me" sticker for one that says "sometimes people get mad at you even though you didn't do anything wrong"
November 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
might need to swap out my "I am not in trouble and no one is mad at me" sticker for one that says "sometimes people get mad at you even though you didn't do anything wrong"
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what I need people to know about “whence” is that you don’t also need to say “from.” you can simply command them to return whence they came. let us be brief with our banishments
"Whence" is sadly under-utilized as a word.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
what I need people to know about “whence” is that you don’t also need to say “from.” you can simply command them to return whence they came. let us be brief with our banishments
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My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
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We were proud to publish Alameddine's only book of nonfiction, "Comforting Myths: Concerning the Political in Art," recipient of starred reviews from Kirkus and @publisherswkly.bsky.social
#readUP
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10051/
#readUP
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10051/
November 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
We were proud to publish Alameddine's only book of nonfiction, "Comforting Myths: Concerning the Political in Art," recipient of starred reviews from Kirkus and @publisherswkly.bsky.social
#readUP
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10051/
#readUP
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10051/
it WAS a nice time 😊
our book club meeting for TONI AT RANDOM is next week!
great reasons to join us:
- you've been meaning to read the book, and need a nudge
- you've already read the book, and want to talk about it
- you haven't read the book, and want to hear what other people think about it
- it'll be a nice time!
great reasons to join us:
- you've been meaning to read the book, and need a nudge
- you've already read the book, and want to talk about it
- you haven't read the book, and want to hear what other people think about it
- it'll be a nice time!
Happy Friday!! Mark your calendars because our next PAGES meeting has been announced! 🤩🎉🥳
We'll be meeting on Thursday, November 20 @ 12pm EST to discuss TONI AT RANDOM by Dana A. Williams. Please register at the link below. We can't wait to see you all soon!
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We'll be meeting on Thursday, November 20 @ 12pm EST to discuss TONI AT RANDOM by Dana A. Williams. Please register at the link below. We can't wait to see you all soon!
urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
November 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
it WAS a nice time 😊
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Staff Spotlight: Megan Levine, Assistant Acquisitions Editor #NDPBlog
Staff Spotlight: Megan Levine, Assistant Acquisitions Editor - University of Notre Dame
Tell us about yourself! For example, what are your hobbies? My name is Megan Levine, and I am the Assistant Acquisitions Editor at UNDP. I’ve been at the
undpress.nd.edu
November 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Staff Spotlight: Megan Levine, Assistant Acquisitions Editor #NDPBlog
a Young Person at my gym has allegedly never heard any of Mariah Carey's greatest hits
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
a Young Person at my gym has allegedly never heard any of Mariah Carey's greatest hits
oh no I thought the due date for this project was earlier than it is, and now I've gotten all this work done earlier than I have to for NOTHING
November 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
oh no I thought the due date for this project was earlier than it is, and now I've gotten all this work done earlier than I have to for NOTHING
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At a recent webinar, authors of a new National Academies publication on using #AI in state and local governments urged leaders to avoid the hype and instead use a careful, experimental approach.
Read more: https://ow.ly/wo4750Xuitx
Read more: https://ow.ly/wo4750Xuitx
November 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
At a recent webinar, authors of a new National Academies publication on using #AI in state and local governments urged leaders to avoid the hype and instead use a careful, experimental approach.
Read more: https://ow.ly/wo4750Xuitx
Read more: https://ow.ly/wo4750Xuitx
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Nearly 350 gleaning operations throughout the U.S. are reducing waste and increasing food security at the community level, supported by the National Gleaning Project, which provides policy and legal support to local efforts.
With Hunger on the Rise, Urban Gleaners Seek to Strengthen Local Food Security
Amid escalating food costs and cuts to food assistance, collecting surplus food offers an age-old solution.
civileats.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Nearly 350 gleaning operations throughout the U.S. are reducing waste and increasing food security at the community level, supported by the National Gleaning Project, which provides policy and legal support to local efforts.
Rancho Gordo alubia blanca beans, beets puréed with almonds, olive oil, garlic, & red wine vinegar, and some collard greens from the freezer. ad-libbed! love a nice wfh lunch
November 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Rancho Gordo alubia blanca beans, beets puréed with almonds, olive oil, garlic, & red wine vinegar, and some collard greens from the freezer. ad-libbed! love a nice wfh lunch
always a surprise to realize that someone dislikes me, a perfect angel who has never done anything wrong in her whole life
November 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
always a surprise to realize that someone dislikes me, a perfect angel who has never done anything wrong in her whole life
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Can anyone offer (in comments or DM) and estimate on indexing for a MSS around 75K words? Im trying to put a grant proposal together and idk how this works, but also feel bad bothering an indexer when I dont have $ to pay for a formal estimate rn #AcademicSky
November 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Can anyone offer (in comments or DM) and estimate on indexing for a MSS around 75K words? Im trying to put a grant proposal together and idk how this works, but also feel bad bothering an indexer when I dont have $ to pay for a formal estimate rn #AcademicSky
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This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
we're like infrastructure in that way
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
we're like infrastructure in that way
I am well aware that in solving this problem for myself at long last I have now hastened the inevitable pivot to low-rise bootcuts, and for that I am sorry
great news, everyone. our long national nightmare is over: I have finally found a pair of jeans with a fit that feels both reasonably flattering and of the times. I can finally put aside the skinny jeans, and can finally stop bitching about this 😌
November 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I am well aware that in solving this problem for myself at long last I have now hastened the inevitable pivot to low-rise bootcuts, and for that I am sorry
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Utagawa Hiroshige, Chinese Lantern Plants as Children at Play, ca. 1842.
Print available in our shop, and more Hiroshige here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/utagawa-hiroshige-last-great-master-of-ukiyo-e/
Print available in our shop, and more Hiroshige here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/utagawa-hiroshige-last-great-master-of-ukiyo-e/
November 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Utagawa Hiroshige, Chinese Lantern Plants as Children at Play, ca. 1842.
Print available in our shop, and more Hiroshige here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/utagawa-hiroshige-last-great-master-of-ukiyo-e/
Print available in our shop, and more Hiroshige here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/utagawa-hiroshige-last-great-master-of-ukiyo-e/
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... #ReadUP, in @publisherswkly.bsky.social, with @modernlanguage.bsky.social, University of North Texas Press, @upittpress.bsky.social, @psupress.bsky.social, University of Rochester Press @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social, @rutgersupress.bsky.social, @siupress.bsky.social ...
PW Studio: Higher Learning 2025
Influential university press titles of the season.
bit.ly
November 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
... #ReadUP, in @publisherswkly.bsky.social, with @modernlanguage.bsky.social, University of North Texas Press, @upittpress.bsky.social, @psupress.bsky.social, University of Rochester Press @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social, @rutgersupress.bsky.social, @siupress.bsky.social ...
great news, everyone. our long national nightmare is over: I have finally found a pair of jeans with a fit that feels both reasonably flattering and of the times. I can finally put aside the skinny jeans, and can finally stop bitching about this 😌
November 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
great news, everyone. our long national nightmare is over: I have finally found a pair of jeans with a fit that feels both reasonably flattering and of the times. I can finally put aside the skinny jeans, and can finally stop bitching about this 😌
I feel pretty confident guessing that Menswear Guy would sneer at this but as a person who is NOT a fashion and style guy, doesn't have a ton of money to spend on clothes, and just wants to be comfortable but also look reasonably put together sometimes: I think washable silk tees are great
November 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I feel pretty confident guessing that Menswear Guy would sneer at this but as a person who is NOT a fashion and style guy, doesn't have a ton of money to spend on clothes, and just wants to be comfortable but also look reasonably put together sometimes: I think washable silk tees are great
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Do you know the ins and outs of the publishing industry?
We're looking for an experienced publishing professional to join our team as a literary agent.
More details on how to apply can be found here ⤵️
https://www.psliterary.com/opportunities/
We're looking for an experienced publishing professional to join our team as a literary agent.
More details on how to apply can be found here ⤵️
https://www.psliterary.com/opportunities/
Opportunities - P.S. Literary Agency
www.psliterary.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Do you know the ins and outs of the publishing industry?
We're looking for an experienced publishing professional to join our team as a literary agent.
More details on how to apply can be found here ⤵️
https://www.psliterary.com/opportunities/
We're looking for an experienced publishing professional to join our team as a literary agent.
More details on how to apply can be found here ⤵️
https://www.psliterary.com/opportunities/
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at a stage of novel drafting I call Checking The Plates because in my first novel I made a mistake in an early chapter about who was holding a plate and it cost us months of edits as we moved the plate around, always causing more problems than it fixed, so now I check for plates
November 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
at a stage of novel drafting I call Checking The Plates because in my first novel I made a mistake in an early chapter about who was holding a plate and it cost us months of edits as we moved the plate around, always causing more problems than it fixed, so now I check for plates