tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post8206551504639347720..comments2024-03-28T22:13:17.139+00:00Comments on Stonehenge and the Ice Age: Now for some self-defenceBRIAN JOHNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-90557537338936194342011-02-26T13:12:20.803+00:002011-02-26T13:12:20.803+00:00Thanks Oswald -- appreciated. Moving on, it's...Thanks Oswald -- appreciated. Moving on, it's always difficult with "popular" science to know where to pitch things. The paper on which I am working with a colleague is specialized glaciology / geomorphology, and would have to go to an appropriate journal -- which would reach one audience but leave the public cold. I'm a writer and publisher, and of course I want to maximise sales potential! But I want to do that in a responsible way, with due regard for the facts. The book is actually proving to be very popular -- so I suppose I am reaching the "right" audience, even if certain archaeologists choose to ignore the points I'm making!!BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-7039976816037680932011-02-26T12:38:44.244+00:002011-02-26T12:38:44.244+00:00Sorry, wasn't meant to be a a "snide comm...Sorry, wasn't meant to be a a "snide comment", Mr John, and no offense meant, please forgive my rashness. Should I have said, that I feel you have further, more in depth data, that you could have included in your book. Let me re-phrase it as such; that by pitching your book at the layman, i.e. the non-specialist, to no doubt maximise sales potential, perhaps you targeted the wrong audience?Oswaldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-56736148792152370122011-02-26T10:13:21.182+00:002011-02-26T10:13:21.182+00:00Snide comment, Oswald! Try not to be so patronisi...Snide comment, Oswald! Try not to be so patronising. I never claimed to be a geologist. Call in some day and I will show you the pile of scientific papers which I have consulted -- I am perfectly capable of reading them and interpreting them. As for our draft paper -- give us time. I am partly dependent on inputs from my co-author, which is slower than I would like. We are all busy fellows!BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-4311434919582339072011-02-26T10:00:24.899+00:002011-02-26T10:00:24.899+00:00The book certainly has the feel it was researched ...The book certainly has the feel it was researched from internet sources rather than scientific papers, leaving the impression it was put together by an armchair geologist. If you have prepared a fully referenced paper you should publish it!Oswaldnoreply@blogger.com