Category Archives: Of Publishers and Plagiarists

In which I Have a Little Talk with Myself and Tour Two Libraries

Posted on February 9, 2009 by

Here I am, just a week into blogging, and I need to have a little talk with myself. I should know better by now than to leave anything to chance. Check and double check. Just because it is a blog … Continue reading →

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But Wait, There’s More: Just $3000 Buys Open Access to Your Article

Posted on February 7, 2009 by

I thought $29.95 was bad, but get this. Listen to this deal from WileyInterScience: Authors of accepted peer-reviewed articles have the choice to pay a fee in order for their published article to be made freely accessible to all. For … Continue reading →

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For Just $29.95 You Can Have Access to Your Own Article for 24 Hours!!!

Posted on February 5, 2009 by

Help! Is there someone out there who can save me hours of research by explaining how I allowed this to happen to myself? Or how this happened to me? Here we go: Back in 1991 I submitted an article to … Continue reading →

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How Rough Is It? Or, Philip Nicholas Pullman Has Always Been Philip Nicholas Pullman.

Posted on February 4, 2009 by

I understand the concept of the Rough Guides’ travel series. It is intended for those whose desire to travel is greater than their disposable income.  Rough then is used as an antonym for Luxury. Fine. But why would anyone want their … Continue reading →

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Not All Balloons Come from Oz…Rough Guide Saga continued

Posted on February 3, 2009 by

Back in the late summer of 2007, before the release of The Rough Guide to Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials and the movie The Golden Compass, I remarked to Pullman in an email note that I thought the best cinematic portrayl … Continue reading →

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When Stealing is Not a Crime, or My Rough Guide Ordeal Continued

Posted on February 2, 2009 by

If Paul Simpson had been my student, I know just what I would have done: taken out a great big fat red marker and covered his title page with a blazing O-F. Then, depending on if he were a middle … Continue reading →

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What do you mean? I rearranged the words…

Posted on January 31, 2009 by

 I would love to have a little talk with Paul Simpson, author of The Rough Guide to Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, a title in the Rough Guides Reference Series, published in 2007 by Rough Guides, a division of Penguin … Continue reading →

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Rights and Wrongs: a little talk about publishers and authors

Posted on January 30, 2009 by

Publisher to Author: You do the work. We pay you nothing. You relinquish all rights to your work forevermore. Oh, and about that word “commissioned” in the Guidelines. It means nothing.   You’re thinking, she’s kidding, right?   You are … Continue reading →

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