Don't publish a paper just for the sake of having one more published paper.

If you plan to write only a few things in your life, your writing time can be thinking time. Use your scheduled writing time to read good books and to think about your professional development.

Ironically, writing a lot will not make you enjoy writing or want to write. Writing is hard

Remember that advance you got? Spend a few hundred dollars of it to pay someone to review your page proofs.

When your book reaches its natural end, you'll need to drag yourself away from the joy of writing so you can attend to the greater joys of preparing to deliver the book to the publisher.

A publisher may put a right of first refusal clause in the contract. This clause means that they want to have the first shot at your next book proposal,

Be sure that you own the rights to the book when it goes out of print.

contract will specify who owns the copyright to the book. For scholarly books, the publisher typically retains the copyright. The publisher will also describe what happens to the book if it goes out of print.

Contracts usually describe how future editions of the book will be handled.