structural collapse, pub dates
March 30, 2009!!!
11/19/08 17:21
I admit
it . . . I Googled myself today. : (
That almost sounds dirty.
I did it to see where my web site would pop up---and it’s at the top! Yes! But I also discovered a few things:
1) I have a hotness rating of 3.0 at ratemyprofessors.com (on a scale of 1-5). Who knew? One one hand, I’m flattered (should I do more to make it higher??), and on the other hand, do I REALLY want my students thinking about me that way?
2) my nonfiction book for middle graders will be published in March 2009!
I found that info about two-thirds of the way down the page. My name is in Amazon--my book is available for pre-order. Very cool. Nobody had given me a pub date yet, so it’s nice to have one.
I must say that writing my novels was about 10000x easier than writing this book. Getting the language down to the appropriate grade level was NOT my strong suit. It was fun, though, to go back and do some technical writing. Sometimes it’s good to exercise those old chops (I have a degree in business and technical writing, which is quite neglected). I have a feeling these folks won’t be asking me back. : \ But in my defense, it was TOUGH. How do you explain terms like “structural integrity” to sixth graders in words that fit the reading scale? I tried. Like really hard.
In March 2009. people can buy a book I wrote (along with Tony the editor, who fixed a lot of the language stuff, so his name should be on it as an author, but it’s not, which is too bad, as well as a couple of structural engineers’ names who also helped, etc., you get the point--a book is always a collaborative effort).
Cool.
That almost sounds dirty.
I did it to see where my web site would pop up---and it’s at the top! Yes! But I also discovered a few things:
1) I have a hotness rating of 3.0 at ratemyprofessors.com (on a scale of 1-5). Who knew? One one hand, I’m flattered (should I do more to make it higher??), and on the other hand, do I REALLY want my students thinking about me that way?
2) my nonfiction book for middle graders will be published in March 2009!
I found that info about two-thirds of the way down the page. My name is in Amazon--my book is available for pre-order. Very cool. Nobody had given me a pub date yet, so it’s nice to have one.
I must say that writing my novels was about 10000x easier than writing this book. Getting the language down to the appropriate grade level was NOT my strong suit. It was fun, though, to go back and do some technical writing. Sometimes it’s good to exercise those old chops (I have a degree in business and technical writing, which is quite neglected). I have a feeling these folks won’t be asking me back. : \ But in my defense, it was TOUGH. How do you explain terms like “structural integrity” to sixth graders in words that fit the reading scale? I tried. Like really hard.
In March 2009. people can buy a book I wrote (along with Tony the editor, who fixed a lot of the language stuff, so his name should be on it as an author, but it’s not, which is too bad, as well as a couple of structural engineers’ names who also helped, etc., you get the point--a book is always a collaborative effort).
Cool.
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