November Research Thread

[Parasaurolophus]

Will try to sneak a little more book work in today.

[Parasaurolophus]

Will try to sneak a little more book work in today.

Snuck in 900 words.

[dinomom]

Getting to work -- ABSOLUTELY must finish a book review this month, so am working on that this morning.

[Parasaurolophus]

Book work on the commute.

[darkstarrynight]

The managing editor sent a reminder to the book manuscript reviewers that their feedback is due by Sunday. So far, there has not been any response. My editor tells me that whatever is received is all I am required to work with (I got one reviewer's feedback a month ago). My time frame to revise and respond is so limited, so as much as I value feedback, I hope a few flake so I can get this done in the next three to four weeks.

I am very frustrated but only one reviewer of the remaining four submitted feedback on the deadline (reviewers had three months). It is supposed to be chapter by chapter but instead I got a few bullet points that basically said the reviewer is not an expert in the topic but wants me to cite their work which came out after I wrote the manuscript on an adjacent topic. The managing editor contacted me today and said two other reviewers offered to get me feedback if I wait two more weeks. I refused! I only have a few weeks including Thanksgiving to revise everything and respond to feedback, whereas they had plenty of time and never bothered to ask for an extension until after the deadline. The editor said it would push the book publication back an entire year (late 2026 instead of 2025) so I was adamant that I could not do that. I gave up all research projects to focus on these book manuscript revisions and splurged on a writing retreat this summer to help me meet my deadline, so if (three!?!? other) people applied for the opportunity and flaked, it should not be on me to delay progress for my career because of their poor time management. The editor agreed so I will proceed with one detailed and one vague set of comments on the book manuscript.

[Sun_Worshiper]

The managing editor sent a reminder to the book manuscript reviewers that their feedback is due by Sunday. So far, there has not been any response. My editor tells me that whatever is received is all I am required to work with (I got one reviewer's feedback a month ago). My time frame to revise and respond is so limited, so as much as I value feedback, I hope a few flake so I can get this done in the next three to four weeks.

I am very frustrated but only one reviewer of the remaining four submitted feedback on the deadline (reviewers had three months). It is supposed to be chapter by chapter but instead I got a few bullet points that basically said the reviewer is not an expert in the topic but wants me to cite their work which came out after I wrote the manuscript on an adjacent topic. The managing editor contacted me today and said two other reviewers offered to get me feedback if I wait two more weeks. I refused! I only have a few weeks including Thanksgiving to revise everything and respond to feedback, whereas they had plenty of time and never bothered to ask for an extension until after the deadline. The editor said it would push the book publication back an entire year (late 2026 instead of 2025) so I was adamant that I could not do that. I gave up all research projects to focus on these book manuscript revisions and splurged on a writing retreat this summer to help me meet my deadline, so if (three!?!? other) people applied for the opportunity and flaked, it should not be on me to delay progress for my career because of their poor time management. The editor agreed so I will proceed with one detailed and one vague set of comments on the book manuscript.

Sorry to read this, but at least you will stay on schedule.

What is up with reviewers lately? Editors can't find anyone to review and when they do it takes forever or the people just flake out altogether. Very frustrating.

[Sun_Worshiper]

November goals:

• Book #1 (solo) - finish draft of Chapter 8; get ball rolling on draft of Chapter 9
• Book #2 (with colleague) - finish draft of Chapter 7
• Brainstorm on new project(s) with colleague(s)

Backburner projects:

• Paper #1 (with colleague)
• Paper #2 (with colleagues)
• Paper #3 (solo)

I finished my draft of chapter 8 for book project #1 and did my end of the work on chapter 7 for book project #2. I also met with a colleague and came up with a new project for a journal special issue, which we'll try to move forward with.

I'll spend the rest of the month continuing to work on these projects, with getting the ball rolling on the next chapter of book project #1 being the top priority.

[Parasaurolophus]

Book work on the commute.

1k words.

[Parasaurolophus]

More book work on the commute.

[darkstarrynight]

The managing editor sent a reminder to the book manuscript reviewers that their feedback is due by Sunday. So far, there has not been any response. My editor tells me that whatever is received is all I am required to work with (I got one reviewer's feedback a month ago). My time frame to revise and respond is so limited, so as much as I value feedback, I hope a few flake so I can get this done in the next three to four weeks.

I am very frustrated but only one reviewer of the remaining four submitted feedback on the deadline (reviewers had three months). It is supposed to be chapter by chapter but instead I got a few bullet points that basically said the reviewer is not an expert in the topic but wants me to cite their work which came out after I wrote the manuscript on an adjacent topic. The managing editor contacted me today and said two other reviewers offered to get me feedback if I wait two more weeks. I refused! I only have a few weeks including Thanksgiving to revise everything and respond to feedback, whereas they had plenty of time and never bothered to ask for an extension until after the deadline. The editor said it would push the book publication back an entire year (late 2026 instead of 2025) so I was adamant that I could not do that. I gave up all research projects to focus on these book manuscript revisions and splurged on a writing retreat this summer to help me meet my deadline, so if (three!?!? other) people applied for the opportunity and flaked, it should not be on me to delay progress for my career because of their poor time management. The editor agreed so I will proceed with one detailed and one vague set of comments on the book manuscript.

Sorry to read this, but at least you will stay on schedule.

What is up with reviewers lately? Editors can't find anyone to review and when they do it takes forever or the people just flake out altogether. Very frustrating.

Thanks! I am at peace with it. One of the reviewers scoffed at my text being "entry level" but there is nothing published on this topic in book form and only a handful of articles by the same three people. My students encouraged me to write this based on a doctoral course and they are the professionals in the field who will be using this to train new people. In fact, one of my current doctoral advisees told me this week they are presenting a training session on one framework they learned in the course to their colleagues! I am not trying to have the book be the end-all, be-all for the topic, but just a starting point. I included several chapters of theories and frameworks in it, and this reviewer was annoyed that I did not include more postmoderm theories (the topic of their article they want cited). Sigh.

[Parasaurolophus]

More book work on the commute.

A mere 300 words this time.

[Parasaurolophus]

I don't expect any napping. If so, then a little bit of T5 will get done. And packing.

[Sun_Worshiper]

November goals:

• Book #1 (solo) - finish draft of Chapter 8; get ball rolling on draft of Chapter 9
• Book #2 (with colleague) - finish draft of Chapter 7
• Brainstorm on new project(s) with colleague(s)

Backburner projects:

• Paper #1 (with colleague)
• Paper #2 (with colleagues)
• Paper #3 (solo)

Outlined chapter 9 and wrote out the intro today. I expect to make a bit more progress on it this week and maybe on Monday and Tuesday if I'm not totally swamped with Thanksgiving prep. That'll probably be it for November.

[Parasaurolophus]

I don't expect any napping. If so, then a little bit of T5 will get done. And packing.

No nap, no work. Apart from generating a short abstract for a thing that's forthcoming, but apparently had none.