The Phytophactor

This past week was pretty ugly.  As previously mentioned about 700 pages of copy-edited manuscript await my attention, and hardly had TPP be...

300 dpi - 300 dots per inch; the minimum resolution limits for a publishable figure according to my publisher.  The problem is that you can ...

Only once before has the Phactor gotten the cover picture for a scientific journal where the cover illustration relates or is taken from one...

Seeking a large number of illustrations for a book has been a very informative, but frustrating process. The lesson is simple. Not-for-profi...

The worst part of writing a well-illustrated book is seeking and obtaining permissions to use various figures and images. It's a nightma...

The Phactor is not and never has been a prolific publisher; years of data seem to easily distill into a single table or figure, but my publi...