We spend a lot of time counselling people on how to get published. We commiserate with the difficulties of getting published (it never gets old; new outrages occur every day). We talk about publishing strategy and the many tools and tricks to get organised, stay motivated, and avoid procrastination.
But what about when you have climbed that mountain and come through on the other side? For the first time!
You now know how to manage the many intricacies of Manuscript Central, Wiley’s ReX, Elsevier’s Editorial Manager, and whatever T&F call their new system (don’t get me started, they know why) and what at least one of them requires in terms of getting a submission (and several resubmissions) ready.
What happens after the acceptance email?
For full subscribers, we go through proofs and open access, and we also discuss what you want to do now that you are a published author.
After I published my first article, a helpful colleague gave me the academic “advice” (I put this in quotation marks advisedly) that nobody would ever read it. Now let me tell you that is not true, and you can make sure of that by doing a few things first.
