The first Ukrainian publisher I talked to didn’t work out. They were put off by the politicized aspect of the book and wanted pure lit crit, which I don’t do. Now I understand that the problem was that this is a private publishing house.
I’m now talking with a state-owned publisher that publishes textbooks and monographs for the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences, and they don’t mind the political aspect at all. For them, it’s all about my history of publication, my rank as a scholar, the quotation index, etc. Zero objections to content.
I’m trying to get a book subvention grant from my university to offset the publisher’s cost but it’s hard to convince the Ukrainian editor that it’s a real thing.
The book should be out by February. I started writing in April, so this would be a phenomenally fast process on all sides.
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