Originally posted on The Writers Vineyard

It is quite remarkable how quickly time passes. It seems like only yesterday that I received the wonderful news that Champagne Books agreed to publish The Gender Divide. First edits came and went and just last week I received the Advance Reader Copy for final review.

I’ve spent most of the weekend re-reading The Gender Divide. I had read through it once already during the first edit but (more…)

Originally posted on The Writers Vineyard

The new version of the Kindle was announced today so I thought this would be an appropriate topic to blog about.

In many ways, the Kindle is a massive success. Demand far exceeded supply of the old version of this eReader and the new version is only better. (more…)

I recently read about a psychological study performed by researchers at Indiana University. The study tested …

“The ability to judge another individual’s romantic interest level”

The participants observed videos of men and women speed dating and attempted to gage the level of interest of each person based mostly on non-verbal clues. (more…)

Ciara Gold, one of my fellow authors at Champagne Books posted a link to an interesting article about how women’s brains react to male sweat. (more…)

Well, I thought I’d start my first post of the year off with a bit of good news. The Gender Divide has been picked up by Champagne Books with a publication date of May 2009. (more…)

Sleepy surgical students do make more mistakes. That’s the headline of another article in the Globe and Mail. It’s a short article and it basically regurgitates a new study published in the Archives of Surgery. The study looked at the results from routine surgery and concluded that reducing on-call hours for surgical students to 80 hours per week (down from as much as 120 hours per week in some cases) improved patient outcomes. I don’t have access to the study but the results quoted in the paper are hardly earth shattering. (more…)

The Globe and Mail continues to provide me with interesting articles. The latest article (Drug makers ignoring key gender differences, immunologist warns) is about the role that gender plays in the drug development process. (more…)

I recently came across an article in the Globe & Mail. It discussed issues facing night-shift workers and included some interesting comments on Work Life Balance.

Ms. Williams wrote that work-life balance “is a self-defined, self-determined state reached by a person able to effectively manage multiple responsibilities at work, at home and in the community.”

‘A self-defined, self-determined state.’ Hmm, an interesting way of saying that it is different for everyone.

This state is difficult for full-time workers to reach at the best of times, she wrote.

Really? (more…)

Work / Life Balance. It’s a common theme in both life and writing, something that affects everyone. I recently participated in a Webinar that added some extra dimensions to this concept. The definition of balance implies that these are the only two things that you are trying to juggle. The reality is that both of these deceptively simple words encompass significantly more. (more…)

I’ve been a member of the bar at Baen and interacted with the people in the Science Fiction community long before The Gender Divide was published. I seldom have the time to visit the bar now, something that I miss. However, I have been fortunate enough to ‘meet’ many new people through the process of becoming a published author.

I’ve never actually met any of these people in person though. Through the magic of the Internet, I’ve been able to correspond with people all over the world. (more…)