Not To Be Trusted With Knives

My First Book!

November 22, 2008 by Beth

Just received this in the mail the other day¹:

That sounds like an interesting book, yes? I mean, who wouldn’t want to read about prenatal alcohol and bone development?

And wait, what is that there?

That author’s name looks awfully familiar, doesn’t it?

Yup, that’s my thesis², in handy book form!

Back in the summer, this publishing company contacted me about publishing my thesis (which they’d found online). At first I thought it was some sort of scam (like they’d require all my banking account and credit card numbers, my passwords, my PINs, my SIN³ and my first born), but I checked into it and it seemed legit. They are a print-on-demand publisher and if anyone buys it⁴, I get royalties and I also retain the right to publish up to 80% elsewhere⁵. You can even buy it from Amazon. For the low, low price of $107.53. Seriously.

¹Before I left for my trip. I didn’t have time to blog about it, but did have just enough time to snap the pics.
²Technically, it’s my “doctoral dissertation.” I’ve been given hell for referring to it as a thesis before, but I just can’t bring myself to say “dissertation.” It just sounds so snooty.
³for my non-Canadian readers, that means my “Social Insurance Number.”
⁴Which I am 99% sure won’t happen.
⁵And since I’ve already published all of my thesis data in scientific journals, I’m not anticipating being able to re-publish anyway.

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