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On turning magazine articles into books 20 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm
Science journalist and blogger Helen Fields just wrote a great post on The Open Notebook, looking at how magazine articles become books, and featuring the journey of The Beekeeper’s Lament. In short,...
Earth Day Special! The Beekeeper’s Lament on Kindle for $1.99! 15 Apr 2013 | 09:22 pm
For reasons that elude me, the Kindle version of The Beekeeper’s Lament is on sale for $1.99. For a limited time only, though I don’t know what that time is! Either way, if you’ve been meaning to read...
TEDx talk, immortalized 26 Nov 2012 | 11:58 pm
In September – on my birthday no less – I delivered a talk about bees, myths, babies, preconceptions, and swarm journalism to 1800 people at TEDxBoulder. It was a tremendous amount of work (they didn...
Catch the Damn Wave… 2 Nov 2012 | 08:39 pm
Every once in a while, I take a break from more serious literary pursuits, like, um, reading up on the K. Stew and R. Patz and Googling myself, to write about something purely fun. Last year I journey...
A Q&A with the folks at TED 19 Sep 2012 | 02:58 am
Last week I did a quick Q&A with the folks at the Boulder TEDx conference, at which I’ll be speaking this Sat., Sept 22. We spoke (well, emailed) about writing, and being reviewed, and how we find i...
I’ll be speaking at TEDx Boulder Sept 22 20 Aug 2012 | 11:30 pm
Come see a really stimulating batch of speakers at the TEDx conference in Boulder Sept, 22, 5-9 at Macky Auditorium on the CU Campus. I’ll be talking about the troubling state of environmental narrati...
A Q&A with book blogger Mark Stevens on bees, poetry, history, agriculture, and the art of lamenting 23 May 2012 | 06:52 pm
Last week, book-blogger and mystery-writer Mark Stevens asked me to sit down for a Q&A about The Beekeeper’s Lament. Mark is a fellow Colorado Book Awards finalist, and we met when we sat next to each...
On pesticides and dying bees 19 May 2012 | 06:33 am
Boingboing.net, the fabulous tech and science site, recently asked me to weigh in on the recent studies linking Colony Collapse Disorder to neonicotinoid pesticides, and after poking around a bit, I w...
Colorado Book Awards 4 Apr 2012 | 04:20 pm
Good news! The Beekeeper’s Lament has been chosen as a Colorado Book Awards Finalist in the General Nonfiction Category. The winner will be chosen at the Aspen Summer Words Festival. I’m up against Ma...
What I’ve been reading… 26 Dec 2011 | 12:26 pm
Each year the awesome literary blog The Millions asks a diverse collection of writers to weigh in on their reading lists from the previous twelve months. This year they asked me, and here’s how I resp...