Tom Levenson has another post up in his ongoing series about the writing and publishing process of his new book, this one about generating publicity. At this point, he’s gone past what I’ve experienced so far, but this is fortuitously timed, as I got a note from my editor yesterday saying that the bound galleys… Continue reading Book Promotion Ideas
Category: Book Writing
Writing Is Easy, Except When It Isn’t
Tom Levenson has another excellent piece in his series on the writing of his forthcoming book on Newton, this one on hitting a wall: The one bit of history specific to the Newton and the Counterfeiter project came when I hit a wall. I had written about a quarter of the manuscript by the autumn… Continue reading Writing Is Easy, Except When It Isn’t
Thursday Baby Blogging 052809
This week, a special Literary Edition: Those are the first pass typeset proofs for the book, which just arrived in the mail today. Aren’t they adorable? Oh, okay, fine. You’re just here for the conventional cute baby pictures:
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog in Languages I Don’t Speak
I’m still recovering from DAMOP, so no really substantive blogging today. I did want to mention a couple of recent developments regarding How to Teach Physics to Your Dog. I think I mentioned a while back that the Portugese rights had been sold. Not long after that, the Korean rights were sold, and last week,… Continue reading How to Teach Physics to Your Dog in Languages I Don’t Speak
What Happens When You Publish a Book
Over at the Inverse Square Blog, Tom Levenson is doing a series of blog posts walking through the steps involved in getting a book published. Unfortunately, there isn’t a compact way to link to the whole series, but the posts to date are: Part 0: Introduction to the Series Part 1.0: The Proposal (with an… Continue reading What Happens When You Publish a Book
Schrödinger’s Dog: The Movie
The release date for the forthcoming How to Teach Physics to Your Dog is December 22, seven months from today, and I got a look at some sample pages yesterday, so things are moving right along. To mark the occasion, and give you something to entertain you while I’m spending another day at DAMOP, I… Continue reading Schrödinger’s Dog: The Movie
Eight Months and Counting
The official release date for How to Teach Physics to Your Dog is December 22nd, exactly eight months from today. It’s probably a little too early to go into countdown mode, but I thought I would mention a couple of recent developments with the book. First, the book itself continues its steady progress toward publication.… Continue reading Eight Months and Counting
Strunk and White Is Not for You
I tagged Geoffrey Pullum’s rant against The Elements of Style for del.icio.us a few days back, because it struck me as interesting, but I didn’t have time to say more. In the subsequent days, I’ve seen a bunch of “Preach it, Brother Pullum!” responses, most recently from revere. I’ve also received the copyedited manuscript of… Continue reading Strunk and White Is Not for You
Technology Query: Making Animation?
The book-in-production will be released eight months from tomorrow, which means that I’m thinking of ways to promote it on-line. One obvious possibility would be some sort of YouTube video type thing, showing a conversation with the dog about physics. This runs into problems, though, given that the dog is, well, a dog, and thus… Continue reading Technology Query: Making Animation?
Beware of Undead Astronomers
My bedtime reading last night was an old pop-science book by Isaac Asimov, about black holes and astronomy generally. He talks at some length about the size and age of the universe, and just before I stopped and went to sleep last night, I reached his discussion of Cepheid variables, which begins thus: In 1784… Continue reading Beware of Undead Astronomers