This week I’ve been reading about other historians’ successes with breaking into the trade press. I love these stories/discussions, and they always make me think of this scene from Young Frankenstein:

So read on for good advice on how you can do it, too:

Crossing over, part I: What is my book about?

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http://www.elizabethcovart.com/how-to-write-for-your-readers/?utm_content=buffera0e1f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Does anyone else have additional advice?

Things have been quiet here on this blog and elsewhere in my writing life. After the mad scramble to work through the copy edits on Angels of the Underground, I turned them in on schedule. I don’t know if this is common or not, but so many of those changes were very substantive revisions. I felt like I’d written another draft of the book–in three weeks.

Now I’m waiting. The proofs should arrive next. Until then, I feel like I’m in a writer’s wasteland with no real writing on the horizon. I’d like to say I’m leaping into my next project, but I’m not. Yet.