I’m the director of Marketing at a large, not-quite-in-NYC publishing house, where I work on books about technology. I’m also the mother of 2 great kids, IT Boy and Little IT (my mini-me daughter). I have a husband too (that would be Mr. IT), but he doesn’t like being blogged about. He’s kind of a luddite. Opposites do attract, you know. My hobbies include those of any other typical 15 year old boy, except for the part about my not being a 15 year old boy…gadgets, downloadable music, reading (esp. SF), sports of all kinds (watching baseball, hockey and football; coaching soccer; playing tennis). My ultimate goal is to spend more of my precious free time reading books that have nothing to do with technology, preferably on a bright and sunny palm tree-lined beach (pina colada optional). Some people know me as Ellen Reavis, some as Ellen Reavis Gerstein. Either way, $2 gets me on the subway every time.
I am currently recovering from a kick where I was naming blog entries after songs by The Smiths. It’s better now, but I cannot promise it won’t happen again.
You can contact me at elleinthecity at gmail dot com
You are wonderful and have way too much energy!!! Can I have some of that?
Ellen,
I like your blog. I found it because I’m researching connecting with publishing people on LinkedIn. Frankly, I’m hoping to connect with more people that can steer me towards more and steadier freelance book design and layout work. Or at least towards some ideas as to how to get a more reliable “in” to publishers.
But in reading your entry “Math Doesn’t Suck”–I happen to love typesetting math, actually cut my teeth proofreading such, and have done layout on a number of heavy-duty math texts–I realized I’d like to ask you to take a look at my blog at http://www.tianodesign.com/blog and perhaps exchange links to each other’s blog.
Anyway, kudos on a good read.
Stephen Tiano, Book Designer, Page Compositor & Layout Artist
email: steve@tianodesign.com
iChat screen name: stephentiano@mac.com
website: http://www.tianodesign.com
blog: http://www.tianodesign.com/blog
Hi Ellen,
You left a comment at my blog, http://www.goodgrape.com the other week. Not sure if you were aware, but my wife, Lindsay, is an AE on the consumer Dummies team. She read the post and said, “Hey, Ellen works at Wiley.”
If coincidence, pretty cool. If not, then still pretty cool. And, of course, thank you for checking out my blog. Anytime you want to drop some pearls of wisdom, I would love it.
All the best,
Jeff
http://www.goodgrape.com