Okay this isn’t exactly a check-in, but a question for the group. I’m writing this grammar. I’d say I’m about 1/4-1/3 done, depending a lot on at what point I give up and decide it’s done. Once it’s done, though, what do I do with the damn thing? Do I send it to a journal or something?
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Oh wow! Congratulations! So do you just look up publishers that have published other stuff from that language family and then email them? Or is there a more formal process?
Oh wow. That sounds really hardcore. I thought they’d just be happy that I wrote the damn thing for free. 
Well in a sense all grammars and community materials are written for free. True, sometimes we have funding to cover the basics, but nothing that would ever come close to being paid for the hours we put in.
That being said, I would’ve recommended Language Science Press, because it’s free and completely open source. They do publish grammars (after review, editing, etc.) but I think not pedagogical grammars like yours. But it could be worth checking.
Since you’re following an SIL template and using their terminology etc. couldn’t you ask them to publish it? I don’t think they peer review their stuff, so might also be much less review work. But maybe someone who actually knows how they publish could chime in.
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Thanks for the ideas! I will check with some SIL people and see what they think. I sent an email to Tom Payne and I’ll see what he says.
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Not to take any discussion away from this group, but there’s an independent group of us who chat on slack and meet on Skype most Thursdays to discuss grammar writing. Some of us have agreements with MGL and others are publishing elsewhere. If you’re interested, send me a message!
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I would love to meet your colleagues! I haven’t used slack much but I could learn
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The Language Science Press diversity linguistics series has a good set of grammars and publishing with LSP is a pretty good experience.
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