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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How come a private publisher would be put off by the political aspect of the book?
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“book should be out by February”
Congratulations!
Also, the word ‘subvention’ is not really used in the US (I remember being confused by it in other languages), usually ‘subsidy’ is preferred.
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I’m so happy! N’s dream is that I will be invited to Alpha Media, his favorite YouTube channel to speak about my book. I don’t think this is likely to happen but I do believe they need to hear what I have to say.
The good part is that I have no fear of being cancelled in Ukraine because I’m far away. All I fear is that the only other Ukrainian speaker on campus will discover the book and complain about its anti-woke message.
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I disagree about ‘subvention’. It’s not a word that most Americans know or use, but it is used at US universities when they subsidize publication of their own faculty members’ books. It’s just that one specific context, but it is used.
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Yes, that’s the official title of the grant at my university.
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