Workshop and conference miscellanea, other events

| April 26, 2011

Just got invited last minute to join a panel at ASJA on Saturday on “Perfecting Your Elevator Pitch” from 11 a.m. to noon this Saturday, April 30, at the Roosevelt Hotel in NYC. I believe it’s open to the public (not sure if there’s a cost) so if you’re going, see you there. Only a [...]

Just what *does* an editor do all day? (Or, nibbled to death by ducks.)

| April 19, 2011

I recently lamented that I had little blog fodder anymore—and of course I know you are all languishing to know what has been happening in my brain lately—and a friend suggested that I talk about the editorial process, because she didn’t know much about it. I have discussed it on this blog before, but my [...]

Update

| April 6, 2011

Thanks again for everyone’s support with starting Tu Books! We’re closing in on getting our fall 2011 books out to the printer for advance reader’s copies, and we’ll soon have them available for reviewers and librarians at ALA. Summer is coming up fast! Just to make you aware, if you linked to the tupublishing.com site [...]

The science of time travel

| April 5, 2011

As I was walking through the muggy streets to work this morning, it was a little hard to breathe—it was threatening to rain but hadn’t quite gotten there yet. And that got me thinking about my asthma, and for some reason time travel along with it. Health/medical issues/immunity differences between time periods is a subject [...]

Korean dramas

| April 4, 2011

On the recommendation of a friend, I watched an episode of a Korean romantic comedy, The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry, describing it as “a Korean Sex and the City, but perhaps with less sex, and funnier.” You might have heard me gushing about it on Twitter. It was HILARIOUS, so I must share [...]