Second call for top five favourite books – Partnership with Shepherd.com
After a successful first round, we are continuing our partnership with Shepherd, a book discovery website where authors and experts share their favourite books.
Shepherd help readers discover books in a new way while helping authors get their book in front of the most interested readers. They work with authors to get their five favourite books on a topic or theme they are passionate about, and three to four lines on why they recommend each of those books. Then, they feature the author and one of their books alongside that list. They also promote the author, their book, and their book lists throughout their website and marketing channels.
At the beginning of 2024 we gathered a list of interested experts from within the BISA community who we put forward. Their book content was featured and marketed by both Shepherd and BISA. We have now opened the call for second round of expert submissions. If you'd like to be featured please do get in touch.
Any individual who wishes to take part should have a recently published book (within the past 12 months) that can be featured alongside your favourite books.
If you meet the above requirement, and are interested in getting involved, please email Dominic.Hart@bisa.ac.uk by 6 September 2024 with the following information:
- Your name and preferred contact email
- Affiliation
- The topic your five books would cover e.g. Palestine/Israel, Winston Churchill, Emotions in IR, feminist IR etc (you can see their IR bookshelf for an idea of what they have already covered)
- The details of your own book that would feature alongside the favourite books.
Shepherd launched in April 2021 and are growing fast. In the last 12 months they have had 4.8 million visitors to their website, so we are confident that participation will give you some useful exposure.