Tuesday 13 July 2010

All change ...

Well, so much for 'Good to be back!'.

No sooner had I promised to be a good blogger from now on than I found myself even deeper in deadlines than before. So sorry especially to thise of you who commented during my latest absence. I promise I will respond ... as soon as I get through my latest deadlines.

Actually, my current deadline is a bit artificial - I'm off to Ireland for a week in the middle of nowhere tomorrow, with no internet access, no TV, no nothing. It's going to be great - enforced absence from all my online commitments. But it means I've got to get everything done tonight!!!!!

Anyway, I've called this post 'All change', because I've gone and got myself a new job. I'm now an editor for English 360, which is very exciting (I mean the fact that I got the job - editing itself isn't all that exciting, although I do find it strangely relaxing).

I'll post properly about my new job soon, I promise. (Although, judging by recent performance,'soon' might be a bit of a stretch). In the meantime, you can read my interview with Cleve Miller, the man behind English 360, which I did last year. It's strange how things work out, isn't it!

My other commitments haven't changed. I'm still very much Series Editor of Cambridge English for .... Book six in the series, Cambridge English for Marketing, is out this week, which really is exciting. To find out more, check out Nick Robinson's new blog, English4Marketing. Nick is the author of Cambridge English for Marketing. Again, I'll blog about it properly soon, but I did actually mention it here back in February.

On the subject of new blogs, another great ESP writer, Virginia Allum, has set up a blog called English for Nursing and Health, which should be really useful for teachers of medical English.

Anyway, now Cambridge English for Marketing is out there, it means I'm officially only working on four books at the moment, although there are a few more in the pipeline. Easy life ...

Right, better get on with some work. Thanks for your patience, and hopefully I really will be a more conscientious and reliable blogger one day ... if I can just get these books finished!

3 comments:

  1. You can't do everything - and I thought I was a juggler :-).

    Congratulations on the English 360 Job that's pretty fab news!

    K

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  2. Oh many congrats Jeremy, and congrats to English 360 for snagging you too.

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  3. Good to see you back in your blogging chair,Jeremy. Congratulations on your new position at english360. Teachers and students are well supported with online assistance these days. English360 is an innovative approach to producing tailor-made online courses for individuals. Blogging, e-learning ,blended learning and even e-mentoring certainly are changes to traditional approaches to learning/teaching. Despite this, there is something about the feel of books and the ability to take them off the shelf and flick through the pages. Maybe it's because I have just taken books out of storage boxes and put them on shelves again that I am feeling nostalgic for the smell of ink!

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