Publications
Blood Cultures: Medicine, Media, and Militarisms
Spilling blood, managing blood, banking blood, and even sucking blood defined 20th-century America from Alcatraz Island to Guantánamo Bay.
Combining science studies, popular culture, and anti-racist feminist and queer politics, Blood Cultures examines how blood saturated the twentieth-century US cultural imaginary, slipped into laws and policies, flowed across screens, and seeped into our most intimate encounters.
Cathy Hannabach traces how these gendered, sexualized, and racialized blood practices were violently mobilized in the service of US empire, as well as creatively transformed by feminist, anticolonial, anticapitalist, and queer artists and activists.
Praise for Blood Cultures
"A stunning multi-disciplinary, transnational analysis of the role of blood in giving life to American modernity."
—Eric Smoodin, author of Paris in the Dark: Going to the Movies in the City of Light, 1930–1950
"Essential reading for transnational American studies, gender and sexuality studies, and science and technology studies."
— Julie Sze, author of Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis
Articles
Planning for Change and Uncertainty
Planning for change seems more important now than ever. Here’s how to create plans flexible enough to meet changing circumstances.
Writing Commitments Instead of Writing Goals/Plans
How writing commitments (instead of writing plans or goals) can help you write amidst uncertainty and change.
Beginning without a Road Map
Beginning can always be scary but it carries new weight this year. Here’s why beginning comes before planning and how to do so in 2021.
Reflection and Compassion to Close Out the Year
Reflection and compassion (especially self-compassion) can be hard to make time for this year but that’s why they’re so important.
How Authors Can Build Sustainable Editor Relationships
How authors can build strong and sustainable editor relationships that stand the test of time and help them meet their goals.
Project Management for Real Life
How to build a project management system that takes your unique situation into account, supports your needs, and helps you reach your goals.
Last Checks to Do Before Submitting a Book Proposal
Submitting your book proposal to a press is thrilling. It feels great to finally get the pitch off your desk and into the hands of the awesome acquisition editors you’re hoping will give you a book contract. Before you send it off, however, make sure you’ve covered...
You Got Your Book’s Index Draft Back—Now What?
Tips for reviewing your index draft, including how to spot check for accuracy, deep dive for thoroughness, and request any changes.
Finding the Right Publisher for Your Second Book
Video on how to find the right publisher for your second book and why your first book publisher might not be the best fit (even if they were awesome).
New Year’s Resolutions for Writers
Need some ideas for your New Year goals? Check out Ideas on Fire’s ideas for awesome New Year resolutions.
Ideas on Fire’s 2019 Year in Review: A Year of Expansion
Ideas on Fire’s 2019 year in review
2019 Ideas on Fire Client Books
A big CONGRATS to all of our Ideas on Fire clients who published books this year! You rock!! 1. Ronak Kapadia, Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War (Duke University Press) 2. Frances Richard, I Stand in My Place With My Own Day Here:...
A Farewell to Ibid.: Editing Footnotes at ACES
I have a new co-authored article (with Sarah Grey) out on the process of editing footnotes and endnotes. A Farewell to Ibid.: Editing Footnotes at ACES As editors from around the United States and the world gathered in Providence, Rhode Island, for the annual ACES...
How to Write a Great Speaker or Author Bio
How to write a great author bio or speaker bio that introduces you to specific audiences and brings in professional opportunities.
Put Your Interdisciplinary Training to Work in an Editing Career
How to use your interdisciplinary PhD to build an academic editing career helping scholars, artists, and activists write and publish awesome work.