Thank you for signing up for mentoring at the 2010 TAA Conference!

You will receive your complete mentoring schedule via email.

Mentoring will take place on Friday and Saturday in the Navajo Room (right next door to the conference session rooms) (view map)

If you have any questions, contact Kim Pawlak, Associate Executive Director, at (608) 687-3106 or kim.pawlak@taaonline.net.

Michael R. Lennie has negotiated hundreds of major contracts for both established and first-time authors of text and trade books. He regularly speaks at workshops and conferences around the country about current legal issues in publishing. Michael has been an active member of TAA since its inception in 1987, has served as the legal advisor to TAA, and has served several terms on TAA's Council. According to Publishers Weekly Michael negotiated one of the largest settlements recorded on behalf of textbook authors. He has successfully litigated a number of other major author/publisher court actions.

Stephen E. Gillen is an attorney practicing in Cincinnati, Ohio, and concentrating on publishing and entertainment transactions and disputes, internet issues, advertising law, computer law, copyrights, trademarks, technology transfer, trade secrets, and related matters. Prior to entering private practice in 1994, Gillen served for 8 years as house counsel for an educational publisher, and before that as an executive editor, editor, freelance writer, and published book author. In addition, Gillen has served on copyright and permissions committees with the Association of American Publishers. He has written and spoken nationally on various publishing and copyright topics and teaches a course in Media Business and Law at the University of Cincinnati and a course in Electronic Media Law at the College Conservatory of Music. He currently serves on the Council of Advisors to the Text and Academic Authors Association, the Board of Trustees of Voyageur Media Group, Inc., and is a member of the Authors Guild. Gillen is admitted to practice in Ohio and before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Fred Kleiner is Professor of Art History and Archaeology and Chair of the Art History Department of Boston University, where he has taught since 1978. Prior to that, he was an assistant professor at the University of Virginia. Fred has won Boston University's Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching as well as the College Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising. The author of more than a hundred articles, reviews, and monographs on Greek and Roman art, architecture, and numismatics, Fred's research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, American Philosophical Society, and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is also the author of the 2007 Texty Award-winning A History of Roman Art and co-author of the 2001 Texty and McGuffey Award-winning Art through the Ages. From 1985 to 1998, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Archaeology.

Fred can mentor TAA conference attendees on preparing proposals for new textbooks for presentation to publishers and other general issues concerning textbooks as well as academic publishing in the fields of art history, classical studies, and archaeology.

Michael D. Spiegler is a Professor of Psychology at Providence College. He has been a successful textbook and academic author for more than 35 years with several leading psychology textbooks, including Contemporary Behavior Therapy, Personality: Strategies and Issues, and Contemporary Psychotherapies for a Diverse World. He has presented workshops on textbook writing for the past 10 years, regularly reviews manuscripts for textbook publishers, and serves as a consultant/mentor to college textbook authors in diverse disciplines. He is currently writing a comprehensive Handbook for College Textbook Writing.

Richard T. Hull was Professor Philosophy in the SUNY at Buffalo Department of Philosophy for 30 years, and took early retirement in 1997 to take the position of Executive Director of the Texas Council for the Humanities in Austin, Texas. A second edition of his reader-text Ethical Issues in the New Reproductive Technologies was published by Prometheus Books in 2007. His current research centers chiefly on the biographies and publications of the presidents of the American Philosophical Association from its inception in 1900 to the present day. To date, he has published six volumes, with a seventh volume in press and three more in initial proofreading stages, all now bought out by Prometheus. In addition, he edits three special series of the Value Inquiry Book Series: Werkmeister Studies, Lived Values and Valued Lives, and Histories and Addresses of Philosophical Societies, all for Editions Rodopi. He publishes several book chapters, articles, and reviews each year. Hull is also Executive Director of Text and Academic Authors Association.

Michael Sullivan is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Chicago State University where he taught for 34 years before retiring a few years ago. Sullivan has been writing math texts for over 30 years. He currently has 15 books in print: three Precalculus series with Prentice-Hall and one Business series with John Wiley. Sullivan is a member of the Council of Fellows of TAA and has been awarded a Texty and a McGuffey award for two of his books. He is currently Treasurer of the TAA Foundation and the Immediate Past President of TAA.

Robert W. Christopherson is Professor Emeritus of Geography, American River College (1970-2000). He was selected by American River College students as "Teacher of the Year" and received the ARC Patrons Award. He is the author of the leading physical geography texts in the US and Canada all published by Pearson Prentice Hall: He and his nature photographer wife Bobbe have completed nine expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic regions since 2003 gathering information and photos for his books: Geosystems, 7/e, © 2009 [Texty winner 1998]; Elemental Geosystems, 5/e, © 2007 [Texty winner 2005]; Geosystems Canadian Edition, 2/e, © 2009; and Applied Geography, 7/e, © 2009. He attended Cal State University-Chico, and Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. His first textbook was published in 1992. His textbooks have received several national textbook awards. Also, he was recognized for excellence in teaching with the 1999 Distinguished Teaching Achievement Award from the National Council for Geographic Education and the Outstanding Educator Award from the California Geographical Society in 1997. TAA presented him with its Presidents' Award in 2005. He has spoken across the US and Canada to hundreds of colleges, groups, and professional meetings.

Karen Timberlake taught chemistry at Los Angeles Valley College for 36 years. She has been writing introductory chemistry textbooks for more than 35 years. Her textbooks vary from 3nd editions to 10th editions and she is preparing for an 11th edition plus a new 1st edition as a coauthor. Her material for textbooks is based on her teaching. Major features of the Timberlake texts are the real-life connections to chemistry and the use of pedagogical aids to meet different learning styles of students and teaching styles of instructors.