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Always Write the Introduction Last
Posted by Chad Orzel on March 31, 2012 Here are some excerpts from the introductory sections of the very first drafts of some book chapters: [BLAH, BLAH, BLAHBITTY BLAH] and [Introductory blather goes here] and Blah, blah, stuff, blather. There’s a good reason for this, based on the basics of scientific writing, namely that the Introduction should give the reader a rough guide…
Science Fantastic, Sales by SteelyKid
Posted by Chad Orzel on March 25, 2012 I had a signing yesterday at the Barnes & Noble in Vestal, NY, which drew a smallish crowd mostly of friends and family. SteelyKid came, of course, and while she spent most of her time bopping about other parts of the store, she came over to the signing area while I was signing books for…
How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog On the Radio and in Vestal, NY
Posted by Chad Orzel on March 23, 2012 The quick publicity items for this weekend: 1) I will be on the Science Fantastic radio show either Saturday or Sunday, depending on when your local affiliate runs it (or when you choose to livestream it over the Internet). The interview has already been recorded, which leaves me free for: 2) I will be signing…
How to Have My Dog Teach You Physics
Posted by Chad Orzel on March 22, 2012 “Hey, dude,” the dog says, looking concerned. “We need to talk.” “Yeah? What’s up?” “Look, it’s great that you’re transcribing the human puppy’s stories into Twitter and all, but I’m feeling left out. I’ve got my own Twitter account and all, but you hardly ever type any of my tweets any more. I have to…
How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog Publicity Update
Posted by Chad Orzel on March 20, 2012 A couple of cool items in the promotion of How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog: – A little while back, I spoke to Alan Boyle, who writes the Cosmic Log blog for MSNBC, who posted a very nice story about the book last night. Mainstream media, baby! It also uses this very cool picture…
Are Books and Kindles Correlated?
Posted by Chad Orzel on March 19, 2012 I’m trying not to obsessively check and re-check the Dog Physics Sales Rank Tracker, with limited success. One thing that jumped out at me from the recent data, though, is the big gap between the book and Kindle rankings over the weekend. The book sales rank dropped (indicating increased sales, probably a result of the…
Dog Physics on the Radio
Posted by Chad Orzel on March 17, 2012 I’ve done a bunch of publicity stuff for How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog, some of which frustratingly continue to not appear yet, but one thing from this week has gone live: a podcast interview on the Matt Lewis Show, where I talk about why and how I explain physics to the dog, and…
It’s Not Finished, It’s Just Done
Posted by Chad Orzel on March 15, 2012 There was a nice piece at Inside Higher Ed yesterday on the myth of more time: A lack of confidence in one’s abilities as a writer, researcher, speaker, etc. is at the root of the myth of more time. When a deadline looms, we become acutely aware of the imminent reception of our work by…
Calling London: Teaching Relativity to Your Dog on the Radio
Posted by Chad Orzel on March 6, 2012 The new book is out, which means it’s time for lots of promotional efforts and links to radio shows and news articles and that sort of thing. Such as this one: I’ll be talking about relativity and dog physics tomorrow night, Wednesday the 7th, on the Big Science radio program(me) at 9pm London time (in…
How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog in Nature Physics
Posted by Chad Orzel on February 29, 2012 The Subject: header pretty much says it all: How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog is reviewed in Nature Physics. I am inordinately pleased with the existence of this– not because I expect it to sell a significant number of books, but because a serious technical publication recognized it as worth writing up, despite the…
