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.
Articles
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.
Succeeding Outside the Academy Book Party and Discussion
Book launch party and discussion of Succeeding Outside the Academy: Career Paths beyond the Humanities, Social Sciences, and STEM.
Embracing Academic Seasonality and Rhythms
How to embrace the seasonality of academic life to bring creativity, productivity, and inspiration for projects while also avoiding burnout.
Planning an Academic Book Tour that Fits Your Life
Book tours are a fabulous resource for getting the word out about your new academic book. Here’s how to plan an academic book tour that fits your real life.
When to Hire an Academic Editor and Indexer for Your Book
When to hire an academic editor and indexer for your scholarly book, whether you are early in the writing process or already have a book contract in hand.
Run Toward Yourself: Building a Career Beyond Academia
Cathy Hannabach shares her story of how she ran, walked, and danced toward herself as she moved from college professor to founder and president of Ideas on Fire. In the process, she discovered that building a life and a world beyond the academy means using your whole self.
