A scholarly rite of passage is learning to accept the frequency of rejection in academic life. Alas, many of us fret about what to do (and not do) after being turned down by a journal. Seasoned ...

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 ...

Academics might find it hard to see the flaws in their work, but to be a writer is to be edited – embrace it. Laura Portwood-Stacer outlines the importance of developmental editing ...

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 ...