• Footnotes, Endnotes, Bibliography. Xulon Press

    Footnotes, Endnotes, Bibliography: What Does it all Mean?

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    If you ask me, the most painstaking part of writing anything is the documentation of sources. It’s such tedious work, but do we even know why we do it? “Ethics, copyright laws and courtesy to readers require authors to identify sources of direct quotations or paraphrases and of any facts or opinions not generally known or easily checked,” says the Chicago Manual of Style (pg. 655). Now, we know why we provide sources for the quoted material in our books, but there are still two questions left to be answered: which system should be used and what’s the difference between…

  • Moving Foreword, Xulon Press Ask the Editor

    Ask the Editor: Moving Foreword

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    I confess: I started to do a bit of research on the history of the Foreword and had to force myself to stop almost immediately when I began deeper investigation of philology and the Dutch, or possibly German, roots of the word itself. (It happens like that for me sometimes. Research is addicting.) A previous post, Front Matters, explained the traditional intentions of some of the bits of, yes, front matter, the introductory sections that precede the beginning of your story proper. This being Academia month, we thought we’d focus on an element of FM (that’s industry lingo for front…

  • Autores Exitosos: Dr. Awilda González-Tejera

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    Por primera vez en nuestra serie de Autores Exitosos, presentamos este blog sobre la Dra. Awilda González-Tejera, autora del nuevo libro Lo Que Dios No Sabía (un estudio del libro de Oseas, investigando cómo los israelitas no incluyeron a Dios en los asuntos de gobierno). ¡Será publicado en inglés y español! La Dra. González-Tejera (quien tiene una carrera enseñando en las áreas de las cartas de Pablo y el Nuevo Testamento en lugares como el Seminario Fuller en California y Texas, y el Seminario General de Teología en Nueva York) ha dedicado su vida a enseñar la Palabra de Dios…