Derek Krissoff

Do you have opinions about book covers? (I know you do. ;-))

Could you please spare a few minutes to help our @stirlingpublishing.bsky.social student @oliviagw.bsky.social with her dissertation research by answering her survey?

(Please share, too!)

CITY & CAST Pittsburgh Should Pittsburgh & Cleveland Be Friends? by City Cast Pittsburgh Orange background, skyline with bridges

What can Cleveland and Pittsburgh learn from each other? What would the two cities gain by teaming up as Cleveburgh?

In a new podcast, @chrisbriem.bsky.social—author of our forthcoming book “Beyond Steel”—considers the relationship between two iconic Rust Belt cities:

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Copy of snafu edu on my red metal desk in my office

I’m enjoying newly published book season!!! What’s on my desk now? It’s @geekypedagogy.bsky.social Snafu Edu. The book is rich with practical suggestions and skillful integration of teaching and learning scholarship. Congratulations, Jessamyn!

The cover for the upcoming volume "The Campus Crisis Toolkit: Strategies and Solidarity for the Rest of Us"

IT HAS A COVER! Pleased to announce that _The Campus Crisis Toolkit: Strategies and Solidarity For the Rest of Us_ is coming from @sunypress.bsky.social in Feb. With 25 chapters from over 40 contributors, the book tackles everything from anti-DEI laws to consultants and cuts to campus violence (1/2)

I’m just going to keep quote-skeeting this endlessly—in this case to note that the book includes a section devoted to WVU / by Mountaineers. I’m just so grateful to Kevin, Lisa, & ALL the contributors for entrusting us w/ their stories and lessons. And huge thanks to @derekkrissoff.bsky.social too.

Hey JHUP authors, check your email. They are adding your work to AI unless you request and sign an addendum to your contract by the end of August.

Black cat poses behind "Snafu Edu" book with a busted umbrella

huzzah!

Can't wait to dig in to a book which is sure to be full of incisive insights, delightfully snarky prose, and deep research. Because that is how @geekypedagogy.bsky.social does it.

My former institution did this, and now has roomfulls of out-of-date computers that it lacks the funds to update, instead of books that still work perfectly well

In praise (mostly) of multi-authored books Anthologies and essay collections can connect with readers

I second this defense of edited volumes by @derekkrissoff.bsky.social at Book Work.

Tip: if you want to edit a volume, loop in an acquisitions editor early on! They can advise on avoiding mistakes and help make the project into something greater than the sum of its parts.

David Baldacci testifies before Senate committee as an Authors Guild member, and discusses concerns about AI companies about the theft of creative work.

“I truly felt like someone backed up a truck to my imagination and stole everything that I’ve created.” —David Baldacci

The Authors Guild asked Baldacci to stand before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, and he delivered a powerful testimony.

Read about it! authorsguild.org/news/david-b...

Yes! Jennifer Frey on the threat to liberal education: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...

Tom Tobin makes the wide-eyed "ooh" face while he reads the book _Snafu Edu_ by Jessamyn Neuhaus.

Ooh! Look what just dropped from @oupress.bsky.social by @geekypedagogy.bsky.social.

It's #SnafuEdu, about how to handle when things go wrong in the classroom.

Get your copy today, friends.

www.oupress.com/978080619546...

Got a book idea for our series? I'm on the board, so DM me & let's talk.

Out Now! "Snafu Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom" by @geekypedagogy.bsky.social is like a preparedness kit and gives teachers an educational “go-bag” of insights and strategies to have at the ready when things go sideways. www.oupress.com/978080619546...

@cmu.edu students prepare for a visit from President Donald #Trump to their campus on July 15 for an "Energy & AI Summit" organized by Republican Pennsylvania Senator David McCormick that includes tech and fossil fuel execs.

Numerous #protests are scheduled to occur nearby throughout the day.

Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom, with Jessamyn Neuhaus – Teaching in Higher Ed Jessamyn Neuhaus shares about her book, SNAFU Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom, on episode 577 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

Thank you so much, @bonni208.bsky.social, for the opportunity to be on the @tihe.bsky.social & talk about my new book, Snafu Edu! @oupress.bsky.social @claudiach.bsky.social @liznorell.bsky.social @johnkane.bsky.social @cyberthread.bsky.social

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From the Rust Belt to the Bookshelf: How Two Cleveland Presses Champion Local Authors Both Gray & Company and Kent State University Press have built business on producing work for Northeast Ohio-based readers. By Maura Zurick

Grateful to Cleveland Magazine (@clevelandmag.bsky.social) for including KSU Press in this writeup of book publishing in Northeast Ohio—and pleased to see more attention for “Light Enters the Grove”!

In a poetic coincidence today, I now have a book cover. Not available yet, but you can pre-order, and I promised my editor everyone following here will want to preorder! But if you have landed here because of the Nippon Steel/US Steel news, you will want to read this:

Amid AI Plagiarism, More Professors Turn to Handwritten Work Five semesters after ChatGPT changed education forever, some professors are taking their classes back to the pre-internet era.

As instructors grapple with the rise of AI in the classroom, it is heartening to see journalists turning to authors in the @oupress.bsky.social series "Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed" for expertise.

@tbertramgallant.bsky.social, coauthor of "The Opposite of Cheating," weighs in here.

Advice | How to Promote Your Scholarly Book An acquisitions editor offers eight tips for marketing-shy academics.

Really good advice here by @rcolesworthy.bsky.social, with a mention to @derekkrissoff.bsky.social: “universities should celebrate the success of their faculty’s books as much as any big research award or sports championship.”

www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide - ACRLog This week I was on a panel at the Generative AI in Libraries (GAIL) virtual conference. Along with my fellow panelists Andrea Baer and Emily Zerrenner, I joined moderator Sarah Appedu to discuss the c...

New blog post on ACRLog, "AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide." Got a lot of comments during a recent presentation that people hadn't heard of the concept of AI refusal, so here's some places to start. 📚 acrlog.org/2025/06/11/a...

Hachette will start distributing for independent presses, offering a chance for smaller shops to get in the door of a Big 5 house. I write about that development & @asterismbooks.bsky.social on Book Work —> 🔗

"The Hard Work of Hope," new from Cornell University Press A Q&A with author Michael Ansara

Books take years to write. Peer review makes the process even longer.

So it is uncanny how often university presses publish books that are so timely—like the forthcoming "The Hard Work of Hope" from @cornellupress.bsky.social

Here is an interview with Michael Ansara by @derekkrissoff.bsky.social

Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.

At this point, I would suggest as a general rule that the greater the embrace of this kind of approach to generative AI, the less invested the institution is in students actually learning something or having genuinely meaningful experiences. Students beware. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

Great to see Kent State University Press alongside our friends at @upittpress.bsky.social, @uakronpress.bsky.social, and Cleveland State University Poetry Center in this writeup of poetry publishing in the Rust Belt!

Advice | How to Promote Your Scholarly Book An acquisitions editor offers eight tips for marketing-shy academics.

And we're back! My latest in the Chronicle is now live: "How to Promote Your Scholarly Book," ft Libra-coded advice such as "use social media" & "or don't use social media." No doubt other publishers will have lots of tidbits to add. Pls share/reach out for a PDF. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

There's no doubt that editors for academic publishing need more help and support to keep things going.

But my god, this isn't it.

I've published in a number of OUP outlets. This would force me to reconsider. I suspect other #SkyStorians will, too.

I'll always be grateful for all of the work that the talented people at Oxford did to make my 1st book a reality, but between management's anti-unionism and moves like this, it's likely my next book will be with a different press:
www.alpsp.org/news-publica...

When I say "please don't publish with the big British houses if you can help it, because they're going hard for LLM nonsense that disrespects everyone's labour and expertise," this is the kind of nonsense I mean (h/t @shannanclark.bsky.social): www.alpsp.org/news-publica...

@derekkrissoff.bsky.social asking the important questions again. Book folks should give this a read.