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We've published deeply on Cuba, Venezuela, and US policy toward Latin America, and as these issues return to the headlines, history matters more than ever. Authors: if you’ve written on this topic, drop your book title + link below and let's build a thread that helps make sense of this moment.

"This book is as inviting, unassuming and unconventional in form as it is illuminating." Alice Gerrard's CUSTOM MADE WOMAN listed as a best music book of 2025 from @rollingstone.com 🙌 www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

hey anyone wanna do a synchronized login to Outlook, for moral support?

It's still super dark & the world feels bleak AF, so let's do something fun: another COOKBOOK GIVEAWAY. See below 👇 for available cookbooks—some recent, some older. Pay shipping & it's yours. First come, first served (but if I've sent you one before, maybe wait & see if someone else might benefit!)

Love to see The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw by Sylvester Allen Jr. and @belleboggs.bsky.social on @thebookmaven.bsky.social’s list of 10 books to read in January for @latimes.com www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

The vibe for 2026 courtesy of our resident fiends at @thefloatingbookshop.com!

make a Bond movie academic Live and Let Die: Biopower During the Cold War, by Michel Foucault

I am once again reminding you that “serial comma” is by far the better term. doesn’t traffic in elitism and it actually identifies the grammatical function of the comma usage

Looking for a short read to finish before the end of the year or to kickstart your 2026 reading? We have you covered 👇 https://uncpressblog.com/2025/12/23/quick-reads-lasting-impressions/

set my auto-reply to start at 6pm; finished the last work task at 5:53pm 😅

is there a Chicago-compliant way to use a chapter as a locator in an index other than chap's page range? i.e., I don't want this: trains, 12, 27, 39–61 I can't find anything in CMOS on this. would a "see also" reference work? e.g., trains, 12, 27. see also chapter 2 #indexing #amediting

Got a little holiday treat 🥰 I'll admit, I use Amazon too, but please for the love of all things good in the world, buy your books at Bookshop.org (or direct from publisher if a small press) this holiday season. Indie bookstores and publishers can really use your support!

Finally done with work and discovering you dragged your feet too long and your presents won’t get here in time? Great news, you can pre-order that person my book, which comes out in April, and say it was intentional! People are saying it’s this year’s tickle-me-Elmo uncpress.org/978146969352...

Predictably, publishers have made partnerships with AI companies to handle production. And even more predictably, it's not going well AT ALL. You can and should choose a publisher based on their operational ethics. @leverpress.bsky.social is platinum OA, library-funded, and we *do not* use AI.

🚨 cringe post alert: I feel privileged to be working on some really great books that will be coming out in spring 2026. I don't think this is bragging, because I didn't have anything to do with acquiring these mss or shaping their content. but I'm excited for these books to be out in the world

in case it’s helpful, I wrote a little thread about why an author should make only *necessary* corrections to page proof

As I was saying…

🚨author alterations in proofs🚨 should I write a thread about why this is a no-no?

Pre-order my book with a discount! uncpress.org/978146969352...

shhhh….nobody move, nobody do anything. *whispers* I think I’m caught up with work projects

Speaking of the W. Hodding Carter III imprint, we just got page proofs in for our inaugural title, @gauthamrao.bsky.social's WHITE POWER: POLICING AMERICAN SLAVERY. WHO. NEEDS. A. GALLEY?!

WHY IS THIS HAPPENING? I literally removed Copilot from my machine and changed the registry settings to disable it.

We're halfway through our annual holiday sale! Get 50% off with code HOLIDAY25 until 1/4. Browse here: press.umich.edu

guess I’ve truly become a Southerner because I cannot handle 25 degrees Fahrenheit

Tell a friend you love them.

man I’m really not loving how it’s 4:35 and the sun is just above the horizon. we haven’t reached the winter solstice yet and I’m ready for spring

icymi @sunypress.bsky.social is having a holiday sale!! 50% titles pub'd from 2020-2026 with code SHDAYS25 through Dec 31. that includes preorders! here's but the smallest smattering of all on offer sunypress.edu/Subjects

I have a faint memory of what it's like to feel well-rested

We are deeply saddened by the passing of D.G. Martin. “D.G. was, in many ways, the glue that held literary North Carolina together. Rest in peace, D.G. We will miss you.” Writes @lucaschurch.bsky.social in this heartwarming tribute to D. G. on the blog 💚 uncpressblog.com/2025/12/10/r...

Yo authors, the more images you have in your academic monograph, the harder it is going to be to license translations of it, especially if they are not analyzed in the text/fair use. Signed, your helping friendly international rights manager

authors, you know what can happen when you become addicted to tweaking your text during and after copyediting, and during review of page proof? you risk over-seasoning the soup. ever eaten over-seasoned soup? think about that experience if you feel tempted to request "just a final few changes"

the sun also rises, and sometimes authors come through in the clutch

another “snow day” tomorrow fml

No big deal or anything but we have two novels on this list **flips hair**

boy howdy the authors are AUTHORING HARD today 😖

why does an Adobe Acrobat tab insist on showing up in the MS Word ribbon, no matter how many times I remove it? WHY

ANOTHER DAY OFF FROM SCHOOL DUE TO “INCLEMENT WEATHER” (it’s 38F and raining)

sometimes it becomes clear that whoever is doing the typesetting is running on autopilot

I’ve fallen WAY behind on my reading goal for the year and I’m trying to remind myself that that number is (1) self-imposed, (2) actually not important in the grand scheme of things, (3) simply a quantification of a practice that I *dont* want to instrumentalize

there was no snow whatsoever. no freezing rain either.

Durham schools have canceled tomorrow in anticipation of inclement weather so the Triangle will definitely be getting 3mm of snow

grateful to have an actually helpful supervisor who steered me away from potential folly in interactions with an author

We're honored to have four titles selected as @choicereviews.bsky.social 2025 Outstanding Academic Titles 👏 🎉 www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

New bookstore alert! So thrilled to see Floodplain Books opening in Wilmington next year 🙌

I turned off my work brain for 4 days and I can already feel the pre–Sunday scaries. re-entry on Monday is gonna be a bitch

A front-and-center display at @flyleafbooks.bsky.social for @marthasjones.bsky.social’s book talk on 12/6!

Still need to find a dish to bring to Thanksgiving dinner? You can find inspiration and recipes in our Savor the South cookbooks 🥧 uncpress.org/search-grid/...

onerous tasks: working during a "holiday break", 48, 53. _See also_ indexes, editing of

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are. My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder. a.co/d/29c7EIP