Author: Emily
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Tips from the Top for Would-Be Science Authors… and Editors
Last month, UNC–Chapel Hill hosted Marc Lavine, a senior editor at Science magazine, to talk on “Communicating Science, Communicating in Science: An Insider’s View.” Most of the audience seemed to be students who might someday seek to publish a paper in Science, and I suspected that most of the talk would be tips for authors.…
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August News
It’s been a busy summer. I’m excited to have so many opportunities to edit and so many ideas for my writing, but sometimes I miss the days when summer meant slowing down. Early in the summer, Alicia Stemper interviewed me for her Vitamin O blog, which highlights “the robust and wonderful people who make Orange…
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Organizing with Post-its
I’d like to share my system of organizing tasks and deadlines. It involves a physical calendar and a lot of Post-it notes. I’m a paper person. I’m not a luddite, and I’m all for “going green” to avoid waste, but I actually enjoy writing and reading on paper. I don’t want another task that requires…
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Summer News
Summer is in full swing, with enough news to report to warrant a blog post. In June, I taught my annual Science of Bread class at the Campbell Folk School. As usual, the students were inspiring in their love of bread and the recipes they tackled. I wrote a guest blog post about the class…
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Book Launch Party
I’ve scheduled a book launch party for May 28 at 2 PM at Purple Crow Books in Hillsborough. If you’ve never been, it’s a very cozy spot. So far I’ve been unable to imagine what I will say, or which passage of Somewhere and Nowhere I will read, but I’m hoping it will become clear as…
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Somewhere and Nowhere
My new book is here! Somewhere and Nowhere recounts my adventures riding my bike from New Jersey to Oregon with my friend Mary. Along the way, there were a lot of “life lessons” about balance and living in the present moment. I began writing a few years after the trip, in 2008. First I wrote…
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New Book Is Almost Here
This week I received my proofs from the printer! Other than the cover being a bit brighter than anticipated, they look like I hoped they would. But instead of being excited, I just feel mildly sick. Was I crazy to write such a personal memoir to share with the public? Have I failed to protect the…
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A Short Guide to Self-Publishing
I’ve finished the Short Guide to Self-Publishing that I first drafted ten years ago! The guide covers self-publishing a book without using a company or middleman to manage the process. You might choose to outsource a task to an expert (a copy editor or a cover designer, for example), and you’ll pay a printer to…
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DIY WriMo
NaNoWriMo in February? I had a story idea this weekend, and I knew that if I waited until November, it might be gone. But without NaNoWriMo, I wondered, how would I stay on track? I love the camaraderie of NaNoWriMo, but I realized that what keeps me going is the bar chart. So I made myself…
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First Time at AWP
Last week I attended the AWP (American Writers and Writing Programs) conference in Washington, DC. It was my first time at AWP, which was an overwhelming affair: six sessions each day with up to 35 choices, a monstrous book fair, evening meetups, and events throughout the city. The first day, I attended all six sessions,…