Sunday, 5:23 am and back at it! Yesterday, I spent most of the day at my desk proofing the manuscript. It's tedious! After about 6 hours...

Well, I'm back at it. Yesterday, I made it to page 127. In the process, I identified about 16 errors, most of them typographical. One...

I'm at the computer and the email is done. It's 6:47 am and time to start proofreading (again). Yesterday, I got up to page 37, with 5...

Yesterday the proofs arrived from publisher for the cover and manuscript! Cover looks great (see pic) with their change in font. All I...

The privacy of patient protected health information (PHI) was made sacrosanct by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...

I heard the term "digital nomad," for the first time today while listening to a podcast on a topic unrelated to locum tenens. A "digital...

I learned a lot about locums from writing yesterday's blog; there's full-time locums, part-time locums, and moonlighting on top of...

I did some research with the help of CHG Healthcare and Staffcare and found some statistics about locum tenens doctors. I made up a cool...

The other day I started thinking about articles that would highlight how important it is for physicians to become aware of the option of...

Physicians of just about any specialty can find locum tenens work. Since I write regularly for Neurology Times, I spent a few hours...

The publisher accepted the latest art work submission for the front and back cover, so they are now off to the design team. Same for the...

It's Sunday and nothing's happening. Waiting for the publisher to respond regarding the front and back cover art, manuscript layout, and...

The cover art is great, but the publisher rejected the first set because the scan quality was too low. The artist rescanned at 600 dpi, I...

It's a big day today! I sent the final version of the manuscript to the publisher! There was overwhelming support for version #1 of the...

Thank you everyone for voting on the cover art. There were votes for all 3, but Version #1 got the highest number of votes, and version...

The artist just sent me three final drawings for the cover! I need to pick the one that communicates the excitement, enthusiasm, and fun...

Just received the publisher's editorial review, which contained no substantive changes. There were some stylistic recommendations, which...

The artist and I have been working hard on sketches to develop the perfect cover image. Here's one of the near-final sketches. Trying to...

Great news! Publisher wrote and said the manuscript passed their "content evaluation" with no problems! Next step, editorial review! I'm...

I couldn't resist the temptation to post one of the sketches for the book cover! It's really exciting. Do you like it? The final cover...