Last June, I finally got up the nerve to show my wife the novel I’d been working on for almost four years. I didn’t want to—not yet—but after several deadline extensions, I had two months to deliver a ...

A children’s book author, Julianne Moore has learned one very important lesson: not to count on her 11-year-old son Caleb! In a humorous appearance on the Today show, the mother-of-two joked that she ...

Ever since I was a graduate student, I have tried to recapture the clarity of purpose I had while working on my dissertation. I got up every morning, made myself a cup of coffee, and sat down at my ...

Last week, after sending my manuscript to a friend, I told her that I am running out of big problems to fix, apart from every single sentence. I am at that stage—I call it “writing a book”—when I ...

We offer some guidelines and tips for submitting your work to Nature Chemical Biology. Do you actually read cover letters? Yes. Your cover letter is the first thing we read, and so it is an ideal ...