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What to Tell Your Dog About Einstein
Posted by Chad Orzel on September 2, 2010 “Hey, dude, whatcha doin’?” “Signing these contracts. I’m not sure why they need four copies, but they do.” “Contracts for what?” “The new book. Remmeber, the one we’ve been talking about these last few weeks? Sequel-of-sorts to How to Teach Physics to Your Dog? About relativity?” “Oh, yeah, that’s right! We’re doing another book! Where…
Obligatory Book Hype: Five Months to Go
Posted by Chad Orzel on July 22, 2009 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 is five months from today. (You can pre-order it from Amazon, where they’re offering to…
The Dark Art of Blurbing
Posted by Chad Orzel on June 19, 2009 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, boasting enthusiastic and generous praise from a very diverse crew of luminaries ? (David Bodanis,…
Thursday Baby Blogging 052809
Posted by Chad Orzel on May 28, 2009 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:
Eight Months and Counting
Posted by Chad Orzel on April 22, 2009 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.…
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Coming This Christmas
Posted by Chad Orzel on March 13, 2009 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: Emmy’s slightly miffed that she’s not the dog on the cover, but that’s what she…
Mr. Earbrass Writes a Pop-Science Book
Posted by Chad Orzel on February 22, 2009 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 deliver it. The stairs look oddly menacing, as though he might break a leg on one…
Book Report: Slouching Toward Production
Posted by Chad Orzel on February 9, 2009 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 in time for holiday gift-buying. Between the book and my class, I don’t have a…
Quantum Physics for Dogs, v3.0.1
Posted by Chad Orzel on December 24, 2008 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 clocks in at 61,518 words, and 240 pages. That’s 50% more words than the contract…
Bunnies Made of Cheese: The Second Draft
Posted by Chad Orzel on August 1, 2008 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 with the figures and section headers and so on. I’ll put the table of contents…
