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how can you get an academic book contract stick around and find out the five key ways today on navigating academia [Music] welcome to navigating academia your leading source for guidance on how to advance your career in academia as always I appreciate the love so please do like and share this video with your colleagues subscribe to the channel hit that bell and comment below you can follow me at the social media sites below so today we're going to be discussing how do you get an academic book contract this was something that I always wondered when I was in graduate school it seemed like so many of the individuals that I was working with were actively pursuing this goal we're already seem to have a dozen books it seemed like already under their belt learning to publish and peer-reviewed journals is difficult enough but how can you take those exact same writing skills that you've developed in that segment of your career and apply it to actually writing book chapters or editing a book itself this is a very difficult process to be able to understand because usually there's nobody to really lead you through this process so today we're going to be discussing five key ways that you can go about getting a book contract of your own option number one let colleagues know that you're interested in co-authoring or Co editing a book if the opportunity arises this is perhaps the easiest way to get involved as a co-author or a co-editor on a book now using this option you're not going to be the first author or first editor on the book however working at least for your first book with an experienced author or editor has a number of different benefits the first of course is that you can get active member mentorship in so far as the process and know what to do so that on the second or third go-around you can really take the reins and take the lead the second is that you're going to learn quite a bit about the different roles of different editors and different authors on a book not everybody does the same thing a lot of people think for example that all co-authors on a book are going to assist in writing every single chapter or all editors on a book on an edited edition are going to read through and gives suggestions to each book chapters set of authors and that's simply not the case but how do you actually go about doing this a lot of people feel very nervous because they think to themselves god you know it's kind of arrogant and what if I'm just gonna go to my colleagues and especially the ones who have books under their belt or usually a bit more senior than yourself am I just supposed to go to them and say hey listen this is a bit out of nowhere but I'm really...