In our newest "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks:
How do journal book symposia and published exchanges happen? I can't find explicit instructions on journal submission sites. Are you just supposed to email the editor directly and ask whether they would be interested in such a thing? Is it customary for this to be the author of the book?
Context: I was invited to comment on a book for an APA session, and now I'm wondering how best to transform my commentary into a publication. Maybe that's just to find a journal that would publish it as a book review but (a) my comments are only on one chapter of the book, and (b) the author has a reply, and there is another person who delivered comments on another chapter of the book. Thanks for advice in advance!
Good questions! I suspect the thing to do here is to ask the participants in the APA session whether they'd be interested in a journal symposium and offering to head things up if they are. Then you could email editors at journals where symposia appear to see if they are interested. Alternatively, if others on the APA panel aren't interested (though why wouldn't they be?), I suppose you could see if it's possible to publish an exchange with the author. I'm not sure how common such exchanges are, though.
Does anyone have any helpful insights?
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