June 2011 Update

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December 2010 Update

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With solstice approaching and the first round of edits back to authors Traci and I just want to provide, as promised, contributors with a firm deadline for getting your revised chapters back to us. Without further ado: we look forward to receiving your edited pieces by February 7th, 2010.

Happy solstice (winter or summer depending on your hemisphere) and best wishes for a wonderful new year.

-Gavan

November 2010 Update

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Traci and I have begun to return edited chapter drafts to authors, so you should expect to receive your work back from us in the coming weeks. Our methodology for selecting which chapters are edited and returned first is based on submission date—the earlier the chapter was submitted, the higher it is on the “to-edit” pile. Our goal here is to have all chapters back to authors by the end of November / beginning of December¹.

If we get edits to you in early December, we are hoping to get updated chapters back from you towards the end of January. We will be in touch with a firmer time-line as we come to the conclusion of this round of editing.

-Gavan.

September 2010 Update

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We hope this message finds you well and want to extend our gratitude for your hard work on your chapters. We appreciate that several of you have faced and overcome hardships and computer malfunctions in the process. Overall, the volume is shaping up nicely.

We have been fortunate to get very positive feedback to our preliminary pitch/proposal from the editors of our intended publisher, as well as some very prudent and thoughtful advice. In response, we have modified our strategy by deciding to read through all of the chapters before finalizing and submitting the final formal proposal. Trusted peers have affirmed this as a wise choice and one which will make the proposal that much stronger, with a clearer overall vision of the collection. As such, we have revised our time frame.

We are currently editing and planning on having all chapters edited and returned to you by the end of November. Revisions will be due back to us at the end of January. In this interim, we anticipate finalizing the proposal with a view to submitting it in February. From there, the series editors will decide whether to proceed in sending it out for peer review. We are quite confident that it will go out, but it may take several months before we hear back about it. We appreciate your patience in this lengthy process and will do our best to keep you up to date on our progress.

Thank you again for your wonderful work. We are excited to be at this stage where we get to read all of the chapters!

-Traci and Gavan

July 2010 Update

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We are delighted to report that the response to our initial proposal to the series editors has been favourable and we have been asked to submit a comprehensive, formal proposal, of which we are now putting on the finishing touches. Our next step it to submit the formal proposal to Rodopi Press.

April 2010 Update

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Traci and I have read all the chapter proposals and had a two-hour conversation this morning to work out the slate of accepted chapters. The quality of all 64 submissions were impressive and we thank those who took the time to forward their work. Our evaluation criteria was based on the perceived  match with the original call as well as the subject under consideration. We will be getting in touch with all proposal authors within the next couple of days with information about the status of their submission.

-Gavan

March 30th

April is quickly approaching along with our deadline of getting back to all proposal authors with word on the status of their submission. This topic has resonated with many people and we were overwhelmed with the response. I’m happy to report that Traci and I are diligently working through the submissions. We’re still on schedule to let authors know of the status of their submission within the first days of April (April 5th was our stated goal, we may need an extra day or two). At that time, we will also be updating this page with the information that we have made our selection. As always, if you have questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with either of us.

-Gavan.

1. With the acknowledgement that short-term deadlines may come up between now and then—I’m, for example, defending my doctoral dissertation at the end of November, which may slow my editing down [↩]