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Official CushVlog Transcription Project for Matt's Second Book

Added 2025-03-28 05:50:35 +0000 UTC

Hello everyone!

Chris here. I’m excited to announce that we are going to be working on a new book! This one is going to be a compilation of essays based on Matt Christman’s CushVlogs. We’re currently in the process of putting together a sample chapter and pitching the project to various agents and publishers, but we’re also going to be asking you all for help.

In brief, we need a team of volunteers to help us transcribe/catalogue/organize Matt’s vlogs so an editor can turn them into a book. If that sounds like something you would want to be a part of, feel free to fill out this Google Form. However, please keep a few things in mind: (1) this project will be controlled top-down by myself and our assistant, (2) transcription can be tedious work, and (3) while we will give any volunteers some type of compensation—at least a free book (custom-signed by Matt?) and credits within the book itself—we can’t promise anything incredible. Maybe something more when we determine how this project will progress. If this is a dealbreaker, that’s totally fine!

We will figure out how many volunteers we have and divide the vlogs accordingly. Your job will be not only to generate accurate transcriptions, but also, most importantly, to tag the transcriptions by topic & timestamp to create a manageable text database to generate a manuscript from. This is why we’re asking for human volunteers rather than just relying on automated services to do this. As you can see by the guide document, we’ve already put together a workflow we feel comfortable and confident with, so please refrain from submitting suggestions on process.

If you’re still down to get involved, fill out the Google Form. If you have any more questions, check out this guide document or shoot me an email at cush@chapotraphouse.com.

UPDATE: Already more than enough people interested, submission form is now closed! Thank you so much to everyone who submitted, you'll be hearing from us soon. Looking forward to putting this all together.