The Science Writers' Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Pitch, Publish, and Prosper in the Digital Age Writers of SciLance; Hayden, Thomas and Nijhuis, Michelle

The Science Writers' Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Pitch, Publish, and Prosper in the Digital Age Writers of SciLance; Hayden, Thomas and Nijhuis, Michelle

ISBN 10: 0738216569 / ISBN 13: 9780738216560

Published by Balance, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Science Writers' Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Pitch, Publish, and Prosper in the Digital Age Writers of SciLance; Hayden, Thomas and Nijhuis, Michelle
• Publisher: Balance
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0738216569
• ISBN 13: 9780738216560
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This indispensable guide shows you how to:
* Jump-start your career as a freelance or staff science writer
* Develop stories and hooks that editors can't resist
* Find ideas, pitch stories and report narrative
* Navigate the emotional side of writing (envy, loneliness, rejection)
* Handle the business details (contracts, taxes, retirement saving, insurance)
* Balance freelance work with the rest of your life--even kids

With over 300 years of hard-won experience, the Writers of SciLance know how to prosper in the evolving world of popular science writing. They want you to succeed too. Whether you're new to the field or a seasoned veteran, these award-winning pros will help you to polish skills, improve business smarts, and create community in what is a rewarding but often solitary field.

As a close-knit community of 35 science writers, The Writers of SciLance have worked as staffers and freelancers for newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and web sites; as public information officers; and as corporate, university, and non-profit organization writers. Their articles on nearly every science topic imaginable have appeared in National Geographic, Discover Magazine, Smithsonian, the New York Times, The Washington Post, and scores of other outlets. They have won prestigious journalism awards, written best-selling books, and contributed to leading anthologies. SciLancers have taught science writing at Johns Hopkins, Stanford and in workshops throughout Canada and the United States, and been awarded Scripps, MIT-Knight, and Alicia Patterson Foundation journalism fellowships. They live in communities big and small scattered across North America, with partners, children, dogs, cats and even a parrot.

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About the Author

Thomas Hayden teaches science writing, environmental journalism and sustainability science in Stanford University's School of Earth Sciences and Graduate Program in Journalism.  A former oceanographer, he also continues to work as a freelance science journalist and author. Formerly a staff reporter at Newsweek and a senior writer at US News & World Report, his cover stories have appeared there as well as in National Geographic, Wired, Smithsonian and many other publications. He has co-authored two previous books, the national bestseller On Call in Hell and the critically acclaimed Sex and War, and was lead writer for the 2010 9th edition of the iconic National Geographic Atlas of the World.

Michelle Nijhuis is a freelance journalist and a longtime contributing editor of High Country News. Her work has appeared in numerous other publications including Smithsonian, National Geographic, the Atlantic, the New York Times, Orion, Audubon, and the Christian Science Monitor. A lapsed biologist, she specializes in long-form stories about conservation and global change, but she has covered stories ranging from border security to wrestling. Her reporting on science and the environment has won multiple national journalism honors, and her writing has been included in the anthologies Best American Science Writing and Best American Science and Nature Writing. In 2011, as an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow, she researched and wrote about the science and ethics of rescuing critically endangered species. She lives off the grid in rural western Colorado.