Eventually, I’ll have something to say on the topic, but in the meantime, here are links to two very useful blog posts for first-time authors of academic books:

One from Tenured Radical and

One from Sivacracy.

I also routinely recommend William Germanno’s two books: Getting It Published and From Dissertation To Book

“Writing for Readers,” a presentation by Ken Wissoker, my editor at Duke University Press, can be listened to just as easily as it can be watched. In it, he provides lots of great advice to first-time authors, including some tips he offered me way back when. The Q&A is also quite instructive even though the audience is Swedish.