Events

Working Productively with an Editorial Team - Group of editors and an author talk around a laptop

Working Productively with an Editorial Team

January 20, 2026

Part of the Ideas on Fire First Book Publishing Series

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Making Friends with Your P&L - P&L document with calculator

Making Friends with Your P&L

January 21, 2026

Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program

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Macro-Level Cohesion for Edited Collections - Pink hub and spoke object on blue background

Macro-Level Cohesion for Edited Collections

January 27, 2026

Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Writing a Successful First Book Proposal - Stack of books with the top few opening up and leaning to the side

Writing a Successful First Book Proposal

January 30, 2026

Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Developmental Editing Workshop - Group of people work together at a table over laptops

Developmental Editing for Anthropologists

February 5, 2026

Community of Writing Fellows, Society for the Anthropology of Work and the Anthropology of Work Review

Navigating Peer Review on Your First Book - Green, yellow, and red paper balls symbolizing accept, revise and resubmit, and reject next to check boxes

Navigating Peer Review on Your First Book

February 10, 2026

Part of the Ideas on Fire First Book Publishing Series

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Building Digital Safety Nets for Your Editorial Business - Safety net

Building Digital Safety Nets for Your Editorial Business

February 18, 2026

Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program

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Business Systems Backups and Redundancies - Blue cloud on top of grey filing cabinet

Business Systems Backups and Redundancies

February 25, 2026

Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Publishing in a Series for your First Book - Row of books on a pink background

Publishing in a Series for Your First Book

March 2, 2026

Part of the Ideas on Fire First Book Publishing Series

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WTF Is Word Doing?! - Frustrated person throws up their hands in front of computer

WTF Is Word Doing?!

March 17, 2026

Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Writing Contracts Without Breaking into a Cold Sweat - Contract on table with pens

Writing Contracts Without Breaking into a Cold Sweat

March 18, 2026

Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program

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Future World Changers in the Academy National Conference - Field of sunflowers under FWCA logo

Future World Changers in the Academy Conference

April 9–12, 2026

Publishing panel

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Marketing Your First Book - author gives a talk at a bookstore in front of the stacks

Marketing Your First Book

April 13, 2026

Part of the Ideas on Fire First Book Publishing Series

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Crafting Coherence in Multi-Author Books - White puzzle pieces on green background

Crafting Coherence in Multi-Author Books

April 22, 2026

Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program

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Editing and Indexing for Multilingual Authors - Scrabble tiles in pink background

Editing and Indexing for Multilingual Authors

May 13, 2026

Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

WTF Is Word Doing?! - Frustrated person yelling at their computer

WTF Is Word Doing?!

May 20, 2026

Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program

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New and Favorite Editing/Indexing Resources - Dictionary icon on orange background

New and Favorite Editing/Indexing Resources

June 9, 2026

Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Sources That Save the Day - Stack of dictionaries

Sources That Save the Day

June 10, 2026

Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program

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When to Query vs. When to Fix - Question mark on green background

When to Query vs. When to Fix

July 7, 2026

Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Getting Paid through US University Vendor Systems - Invoices stamped with Paid

Getting Paid through US University Vendor Systems

July 8, 2026

Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program

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Time Tracking, Estimating, and Scoping Projects - Blue torn paper with the word "estimate"

Time Tracking, Estimating, and Scoping Projects

August 12, 2026

Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Time Tracking, Estimating, and Scoping Projects - Blue torn paper with the word "estimate"

Assessing Project Scope for Accurate Estimates

August 17, 2026

Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program

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Managing Figures in Scholarly Work - 4 artworks on a wall under a lamp

Managing Figures in Scholarly Work

September 8, 2026

Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

The Art of the Query - Post-Its with question mark

The Art of the Query

September 9, 2026

Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program

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Collaborating Across the Editorial–Indexing Handoff - Relay runners hand off the baton

Collaborating Across the Editorial–Indexing Handoff

October 6, 2026

Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Tools Editors Can Actually Use - Tools and tape measure

Tools Editors Can Actually Use

November 3, 2026

Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program

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New and Favorite Editing/Indexing Tools - Tools on a work bench

New and Favorite Editing/Indexing Tools

November 10, 2026

Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Goal Setting for 2027 - Red and white bullseye with arrow in center

Editorial Goal Setting for 2027

December 8, 2026

Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Goal Setting for 2027 - Red and white bullseye with arrow in center

Editorial Goal Setting for 2027

December 9, 2026

Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program

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Past events (abbreviated)

Editorial Goal Setting for 2026

  • December 2, 2025
  • Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Academic Editing and Indexing Tools

  • November 12, 2025
  • Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Crafting a Winning First Book Proposal

Lesbian Lives Conference

  • October 23–25, 2025
  • Supporting Ideas on Fire authors and sponsoring the event

Editorial Business Planning Workshop

Ensuring Legibility in Interdisciplinary Texts

  • October 14, 2025
  • Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Finding the Right Publisher for Your First Book

Crafting Style Sheets that Work

  • August 12, 2025
  • Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Professional Growth for Mid-Career Editors and Indexers

  • July 8, 2025
  • Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Working with Underdeveloped Manuscripts

  • May 6, 2025
  • Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program

AI and Academic Editing

  • March 18, 2025
  • Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Recent Trends in Scholarly Publishing

  • February 4, 2025
  • Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Editorial Project Management Tools

  • January 14, 2025
  • Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Optimizing Index Cross References and Double Posting

  • December 11, 2024
  • Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

American Studies Association conference

  • November 14–17, 2024
  • Supporting Ideas on Fire authors and exhibiting at the event

What’s New in CMOS 18

  • October 8, 2024
  • Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Editing Interdisciplinary Scholarly Book Proposals

  • September 17, 2024
  • Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Working with (not against) an Author’s Voice

  • November 21, 2024
  • Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Managing Large Index Entries and Metatopics

  • June 18, 2024
  • Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Writing Dissertation-to-Book Manuscript Reviews

  • May 21, 2024
  • Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Phrasing Effective Index Entries and Subentries

  • April 17, 2024
  • Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Editing Crossover and Trade Books by Scholarly Authors

  • March 26, 2024
  • Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Exploring Indexing Workflows

  • February 27, 2024
  • Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Crafting an Academic Book Proposal

  • February 14, 2024
  • Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Editorial Goal Setting

  • December 5, 2023
  • Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program

Feminist Futures of Peer Review

Keynote Address: Editing as Worldmaking: Critical Generosity in Editorial Practice

  • August 18, 2023
  • Editorial Freelancers Association conference, Alexandria, VA
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