Forensic Science* Has Over 1,000 Subscribers!
Woo-hoo!
I started this as an outlet for thoughts that journals wouldn’t publish1 and to have fun writing.2 I want to thank you all for your readership and support—especially you crazy bastards that provide financial assistance through paid subscriptions3. Mwah!4
Turning a corner like this is motivating5 and I’m looking forward to new topics, new ideas, and new footnotes6. Thanks again, everyone.7
I say that as the Editor-in-Chief of a journal, Forensic Science International: Synergy, and being an Editor for Nature and PLOSOne. Really, this is it, kids, as far as outlets go.
Do you know how mindnumbingly boring writing textbooks is? Do you? DO YOU?? It’s like “very” times 100. It’s also mentally taxing: What to leave out? Should this be a sidebar? What goes online? Is that too many learning objectives? Do students even read anymore? Then why am I doing this? Again?!? Oh, right—the royalties. Uh huh. Sure. I promise I won’t spend it all in one place.
No, really. Even a little bit helps with the internet bills, plus the occasional coffee I splurge on while ignoring the noisy magpies that infest inhabit my local coffeeshops. Indoor voices, children, please. It’s not a gymnasium, not that you’d know what one would look like, sir. This isn’t a Wendys.
That’s an exuberant form of “thank you.” I’m not trying to kiss you. Please don’t call HR.
That and the comments I get from readers. It, and the splurge coffee, are what keeps me going. And the martinis. 🍸
I probably spend as much time on the footnotes as I do on the damn articles, isn’t that weird? I think so.
Sincerely.❤