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Originally Posted by Liudprand
Indeed. All the more reason to disguise that fact in the marketing and production, if you want to sell more books! To be fair, most readers of a book like that would have no objection to her being an academic - but they will often be turned off by anything signalling that the book is written in an academic style, and (especially) that the writer and publisher are keen to communicate the book's academic good standing. (There are readers who actually respond positively to the kind of impenetrable and self-important prose that academics are too often guilty of producing, but they're much fewer in number.)
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Perhaps you're right, the author's earlier works, "Mistress Bradstreet" and "The Woman Who Named God", have superscripted cues and numbering within chapters, they were published by Little, Brown & Co. (Hatchette).
Likely she switched to another literary agent.
BR