I will be publishing my first work in book form soon. I will author a chapter in the forthcoming Handbook of Endangered Turkic Languages which will be published by a university in, of all places, Kazakhstan. The chapter should be titled Mutual Intelligibility among the Turkic Languages. Last time I checked, it ran ~80 pages. I am told that my chapter will be one of the most important ones in the book. Among other things, I expand the number of Turkic languages from the current 40 to 53,
It should be coming out in May-June. I will be paid but probably not a whole lot. I have no idea what folks get paid for such things. If I get $300 I would consider myself lucky.
