Is There a Doctor in the House?

[CopyCarver]

Anyone have a Ph.D, Ed.D, or any other flavor of academic doctorate?
I'm not being snoopy--there's a rea$son for asking.

 

[kbate]

Editing a doctoral thesis?

I dropped out of my doctoral program. Real life became more important than extra initials.

 

[CopyCarver]

Editing a doctoral thesis?

I dropped out of my doctoral program. Real life became more important than extra initials.

A publisher solicited a 70,000 word how-to on writing dissertations. After I have the ms. half finished, they decided the book would sell better if the author (or co-author) had a doctorate instead of my lowly M.A. I need to "rent" a credential from someone who's willing to share the credit (blame?) for the book.

 

[kbate]

A publisher solicited a 70,000 word how-to on writing dissertations. After I have the ms. half finished, they decided the book would sell better if the author (or co-author) had a doctorate instead of my lowly M.A. I need to "rent" a credential from someone who's willing to share the credit (blame?) for the book.

It sounds dreadful. A how-to for dissertations? I was kind of under the impression when I was working on mine, that doctoral candidates are supposed to be able to do that kind of thing without an idiot's guide.

 

[CopyCarver]

It sounds dreadful. A how-to for dissertations? I was kind of under the impression when I was working on mine, that doctoral candidates are supposed to be able to do that kind of thing without an idiot's guide.

The irony is that most would be fine on their own if not for the arcane absurdities perpetrated by so many grad school faculty committees. Most universities require faculty to specify their crackpot notions only if asked, so the book will, in large part, consist of details to nail down before the fact--many of which are so demented that they wouldn't occur to anyone who hasn't been burned.

 

[M-Y-Erotica]

There are some web sites that specialize in matching writers with publishers, or I should say..., ok, basically it's free-lance job postings and people bid for them. We need someone to ghost write Dawg the Bounty Hunter's auto bio, please send resume. You might need a membership, but sometimes they are free. There's a chance you can find someone through such a Board. If I can recall the name of one, I will yell.

 

[CopyCarver]

There are some web sites that specialize in matching writers with publishers, or I should say..., ok, basically it's free-lance job postings and people bid for them. We need someone to ghost write Dawg the Bounty Hunter's auto bio, please send resume. You might need a membership, but sometimes they are free. There's a chance you can find someone through such a Board. If I can recall the name of one, I will yell.

Thanks for the thought, but I have the publisher and I am the writer. I really just need someone with a doctorate to lend their name. There are tons of them at the university where I work but most are reluctant to get involved with a commercial publisher and/or a "popular" book.

 

[LadyCibelle]

Anyone have a Ph.D, Ed.D, or any other flavor of academic doctorate?
I'm not being snoopy--there's a rea$son for asking.

I have a Masters in Psychology and another one in Criminology.

 

[CopyCarver]

I have a Masters in Psychology and another one in Criminology.

Unfortunately, the publisher is obsessed with Cotton Mather's shopworn dogma that "only a doctor can make a doctor." More accurately, the house is convinced that grad students won't spend $49.50 on the book unless a Phudd conspicuously follows the author's or co-author's name.

Criminologist, eh? Thanks for the warning. I hereby retract all incriminating statements I may previously have posted. I'm really a good little boy with an overactive imagination, prone to exaggeration and poetic license, and pure as pre-nuclear snow. That's my story and I'm sticking to it until the Innocence Project arrives en masse.

 

[LadyCibelle]

Unfortunately, the publisher is obsessed with Cotton Mather's shopworn dogma that "only a doctor can make a doctor." More accurately, the house is convinced that grad students won't spend $49.50 on the book unless a Phudd conspicuously follows the author's or co-author's name.

Criminologist, eh? Thanks for the warning. I hereby retract all incriminating statements I may previously have posted. I'm really a good little boy with an overactive imagination, prone to exaggeration and poetic license, and pure as pre-nuclear snow. That's my story and I'm sticking to it until the Innocence Project arrives en masse.

Yeah, I saw you needed a doctor after I posted and I was too lazy to edit or delete.

As for the crim part of me, don't worry....I only profile the bad guys and you're clearly NOT one of them.

 

[CopyCarver]

Yeah, I saw you needed a doctor after I posted and I was too lazy to edit or delete.

As for the crim part of me, don't worry....I only profile the bad guys and you're clearly NOT one of them.

Coincidence and a half! The mystery book I tried to con you into writing a few weeks ago centers around a profiler in a thoroughly unexpected role.

 

[LadyCibelle]

Coincidence and a half! The mystery book I tried to con you into writing a few weeks ago centers around a profiler in a thoroughly unexpected role.

Lolll too funny

 

[CopyCarver]

Lolll too funny

Actually, true. Don't want to give away too much of the plot...let's just say that extremely intelligent, complex people can simultaneously be precisely what they seem and the polar antithesis as well.

 

[LadyCibelle]

Actually, true. Don't want to give away too much of the plot...let's just say that extremely intelligent, complex people can simultaneously be precisely what they seem and the polar antithesis as well.

Quite true...quite true.

We never who someone truly is before we've either walked a mile in their shoes or spend 24/7 with them for a while.

 

[snooper]

I'd offer to help but I don't have Ph.D. after my RL name, just Prof. in front of it.

 

[CopyCarver]

I'd offer to help but I don't have Ph.D. after my RL name, just Prof. in front of it.

Me too. I tried to convince the publisher that might work, but they won't buy it. Oh, well, the book would probably generate some decent royalties but it's not something I have a burning desire to do. Perhaps I'll put the ball back in the publisher's court--"You guys find a Ph.D. who can't write to front the opus and I'll ghost it."

 

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[CopyCarver]

*small bump*

*GIANT NAG*

*hanging head and calling lawyer*
I've been searching for the proposal that sold the book to the publisher, but I've been spending 28 hours a day at work--and getting phone calls the other 26. (If it weren't for the honor of being "indispensible"...) I WILL dig up the file, or else write a coherent description SOON. Promise!

 

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[CopyCarver]

Time to run away from home, m'dear. May I offer some destination suggestions?

Wow! A destination suggestion that doesn't include the word "hell"--that's a first for me!

 

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