This book is written to uncover the hidden realities of scholarly journal publishing to aspiring authors in the hopes of making the process more accessible and successful. This book does not guarantee that any one paper will be accepted by a journal, nor does it offer shortcuts or tricks to getting a specific work published. Instead, the book provides useful insights based on the author's own editorial experience into how journal editors operate and how they handle manuscripts at each stage of the scholarly publication process. That process includes the initial submission, desk check, peer review, revision, rejection, acceptance, publication, and marketing of the article. The purpose of this book is to help new and established researchers and academics understand what is happening behind the curtain and eliminate the need for guessing or speculation. It is also meant to make the process less stressful by showing how decisions are made and how to respond to them. This book will be useful to readers who are navigating the sometimes confusing or frustrating waters of becoming journal authors.
