Writing It!

Episode 13: Why publish with a ‘trade division’ of an academic press?

December 18th, 2023  |  47 mins 57 secs

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Today we speak with Martin Siegel, author of the recently published, Judgement and Mercy: The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs about writing a biography over many years, and publishing with the trade division of an academic press.