I released my e-book Writing College Textbook Supplements: The Definitive Guide to Winning High-Paying Assignments in the College Textbook Publishing Market a few months ago. The first person who got a copy? My niece Dionne Soares Palmer. OK, hers was free because she’s family.
I’m very proud of Dionne. She’s finishing her dissertation for a Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of California, Davis, my alma mater. [Update: Dionne received her Ph.D. in June, 2010!]
And she recently landed and completed her first college textbook ancillary/supplement, the PowerPoint lecture outlines to accompany An Introduction to Language, 9th edition, by Victor Fromkin, Robert Rodman, and Nina Hyams.
She followed the advice I laid out in the e-book to find editors, contact them, and get work. She says she really enjoyed creating the lecture outlines and looks forward to completing more projects.
Please share your recent completed textbook supplement and ancillary projects with us. Just be sure the work’s already been released and you’re not violating any confidentiality agreements.
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That’s really interesting advice. These textbook-based lecture slides are really useful for instructors. I noticed one such set on another website, Introduction to Econometrics. Totally different subject matter but same idea. I don’t think they’ve published them yet.
Lecture outlines, usually as PowerPoint slides, are a standard supplement for many lower-division college textbooks these days.
Creating lecture outlines is one of my favorite types of projects.