Publishing from your PhD precisely focuses on providing early career researchers with emotional and collegial support that is often not available in academe. It seeks to dispel nepotistic notions of superiority that places Professors and such on a pedestal. It specifically clarifies the difficulty in having written the PhD thesis genre and rewriting it to suit the genre of journal articles. It does not deal with the 'how' of academic writing in general.

Contents: Introduction - navigating a jungle: no worn paths; Supplies are needed, packing the backpack: what others have written; Hacking a path through unknown territory; Navigating new terrain: the demise of the book?; Flies, gnats and wasps: negotiating the gatekeepers; The night is black: no black or white in academia; Stamina is needed for survival: choosing the right journal; Fighting the heat, hunger and thirst: dealing with rejection; Thorny bushes and muddy swamps: things that slow you down; The final destination has moved, hack another path: the process of culling and prioritising. Prologue: introducing the interviews with the academics: Professor Jan Herrington; Professor Paul Chandler; Professor Lori Lockyer; Professor Jan Wright; Professor Wilma Vialle; Professor Sara Dolnicar; Conclusion: negotiating the crowded jungle - acknowledge successful navigation; References; Index.

Dr Nicola F. Johnson recently published The Multiplicities of Internet Addiction: The Misrecognition of Leisure and Learning with Ashgate (2009). She is a senior lecturer in teacher education in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Victoria, Australia. Nicola is an early career researcher who has recently been awarded her PhD (2008) and commenced a full-time career as an academic in early 2007.