#Author

Pulling over a convo from elsewhere re: offering feedback to authors. When authors admit that certain feedback wasn't helpful, it can be misconstrued as them rejecting criticism. More likely, it
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Nearly tears of joy seeing new paper in medical journal with correct analysis and interpretation of aerosol transmission: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30323-4/fulltext See thread for summary of main poi
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Would encourage all editors to read this reflection from @danielskatz and @arfon on experiences with @JOSS_TheOJ follows with own experience submitting to @JOSS_TheOJ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2021/05/06/guest-post-starting-a-nov
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I find this a little grotesque. The fact that there's more anger at Snow and how she exposed someone's lies than at the person who lied? The person who lied
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Now is the time to speak of books! Books and also authors and the myriad way things happen. @MikeRUnderwood is one of those authors whose work has been so consistently
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Okay, so I said last month that I was going to do a series of tweets talking about my experience as an an agent with #PitchWars. Today seems a good
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I’ve been thinking on forms of social commentary + how to distinguish them. Satire vs bullying is a crucial one. Importantly satire is directed at people greater than, w more
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It’s time for my #10Queries for #RevPit !!I used some abbreviations because tweets are short and I’m wordy.Let me know if anything is unclear!A = adultYA = young adultMC =
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So, yesterday, to no acclaim at all (seriously people, crickets) I emitted a tweetstorm about a Harvard study that was being used to justify demands for 5 MILLION tests a
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Today's #WednesdayWritingTips are about listening to your inner editor! We were talking about this last night on my Advanced Picture Books Writing course. 1) Sometimes when writing, there's a nagging
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Did you know:David Asimov, son of famous author Isaac Asimov, was caught with the largest child p-rn collection in CA history in 1998Asimov got a plea deal from the US
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In "Borat," "Kazakhs" stand in, in Sacha Baron Cohen's mind, for his ancestral enemies, the Cossacks (the Christian Slavic cavalrymen whose pogrom ruins the wedding of the daughter of Tevye,
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If you thought writing a book was difficult, you haven’t tried getting one published - that too during COVID. So, let's talk about what goes behind publishing a book, especially
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The importance of reputation and committing to consequence, A THREAD:SPOILERS for *MY HERO ACADEMIA* and *CHAINSAW MAN* manga, up to chapters 266 and 64 respectively!!!!You have been warned! Chainsaw Man
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100 great islamic figures that changed history’s course 《 thread 》*disclaimer: - this thread is going to be based on the names mentioned in a book called مائة من عظماء
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[[[THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE LORE THREAD]]] Where to begin, well I suppose with the author.The Reverend W. Awdry was an anglican clergyman who had a fascination with trains and wrote
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