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"Uncertain Principles" features the miscellaneous ramblings of a physicist at a small liberal arts college. Physics, politics, pop culture, and occasional conversations with his dog.
You've read the blog, now try the book: How to Teach Physics to Your Dog will be published December 22nd by Scribner.
"Prof. Orzel gives the impression of an everyday guy who just happens to have a vast but hidden knowledge of physics." (anonymous student evaluation comment)
Emmy is a German Shepherd mix, and the Queen of Niskayuna. She likes treats, walks, chasing bunnies, and quantum physics.
Category: Book Writing
The ScienceBlogs upgrade put a bit of a kink in my plans for monthly book hype, but I didn't want to let the day pass without noting that the official release date for How to Teach Physics to Your Dog...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:47 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Book Writing
Tom Levenson's series about the writing of his Newton and the Counterfeiter continues with a piece on the getting of blurbs for the cover: Newton and the Counterfeiter (Amazon, Powells, Barnes and Noble, Indiebound) is by far my best-blurbed book,...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:04 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Progress Report
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:...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:32 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Progress Report
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...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 2:49 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Progress Report
I have an official release date for the book-in-production: December 22nd. There's no lay-down date, though, so they may turn up in stores before then. Mark it down on your Christmas list now... There's also an official title and cover:...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 1:48 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Progress Report
Holding TUH not very neatly done up in pink butcher's paper, whcih was all he could find in a last-minute search before leaving to catch his train for London, Mr Earbrass arrives at the offices of his publishers to...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 3:10 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Progress Report
The Book-in-Progress is slowly but surely moving toward being the Book-in-Production. There isn't an officially official date yet, but I've gotten what should be the last round of edits, and been told that it should be out this fall, just...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:50 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Progress Report
I haven't sent it off to my editor yet-- I need to look it over one more time to see if there are horrible mistakes anywhere-- but I'm officially declaring the third draft of the book-in-progress to be complete. It...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 12:24 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Progress Report
The second complete draft was sent off to my editor yesterday, and after a little bit of excitement regarding files that wouldn't open, it was successfully delivered. There were only minor changes since the last update, mostly having to do...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:42 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Progress Report
I've finished a first pass through the second draft of Bunnies Made of Cheese: The Book, doing revisions on all of the chapters to make it a little more comprehensible. I'm still waiting for beta-reader comments on the re-written Chapter...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:37 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
