Copy-editing, design, proofreading and final deadlines
2013-09-21
The authors have been working flat-out to meet the demanding publication schedule and progressing through several major steps in the editorial cycle.Continue Reading
Pinterest board launched for The New Sylva
2013-06-26
We’ve launched a Pinterest board for The New Sylva, so that many of the images of Sarah Simblet’s drawings for the book can be viewed from one place.Continue Reading
Author speaks at launch of Box project
2013-06-22
Yesterday Gabriel Hemery was an invited speaker at the opening of the Chilterns Box Woodland Project. “I need not speak much of the uses of this tree, (growing in time to considerable stature) so continually sought after for many utensils, being so hard, close and pondrous as to sink likeContinue Reading
Gabriel Hemery talks about the making of The New Sylva
2013-06-06
Gabriel Hemery will be talking about the making of The New Sylva at the Chilterns Woodland conference tomorrow. More information and last-minute booking is available hereContinue Reading
Publishing team meeting at Bloomsbury
2013-05-04
The authors met the publishing team at Bloomsbury yesterday, including editorial, design, marketing, publicity and sales. This was the first occasion that the authors had met the whole team. It was a milestone in the book’s development as it signified that from now on all of us will be workingContinue Reading
One year to publication
2013-04-06
It is one year until The New Sylva is published in April 2014 and several milestones have been reached. Gabriel Hemery has finished drafting the manuscript; before editing the word count stands at 125,000 words. Sarah Simblet has completed more than two-thirds of the drawings with just 60 (out ofContinue Reading
Book design revealed
2013-01-01
… 432 pages, 29.5 x 25.4 cm, more than 200 original drawings by Sarah Simblet, more than 100,000 words by Gabriel Hemery, 44 main groups of tree species covering over 90 species, publication date: April 2014, …Continue Reading
Christmas message
2012-12-23
Wishing all my readers a peaceful Christmas and a fruitful New Year Gabriel Hemery See more from this photo series on The Tree PhotographerContinue Reading
Hunting for a venerable ash tree – can you help?
2012-12-19
The authors are searching for the finest example of a common ash (Fraxinus excelsior) tree to feature in The New Sylva. We hope that our readers can help by submitting their favourite ash trees – one of which will be selected and appear in the book frontispiece. Following the outbreakContinue Reading
Deep in close-to-nature forestry
2012-10-03
Earlier this week the authors visited Stourhead (Western) Estate in Wiltshire to study and draw a treescape in one of Britain’s most progressively-managed woodlands.Continue Reading
Ride for Research 2012
2012-09-08
I completed the Reading City leg of the 2012 Ride for Research event last weekend; riding about 21 miles. Thank you to all those who sponsored me. I exceed my personal fundraising target of £200 – today it stands at a little over £350. It’s not too late if youContinue Reading
Designing the book
2012-08-13
Today the authors held a meeting with editors at Bloomsbury to discuss book design in detail. Editors Richard Atkinson and Natalie Hunt were joined by Peter Dawson of Grade Design Consultants (www.gradedesign.com) who has been appointed as Book Designer. Sarah Simblet also handed over the first batch of 30 completedContinue Reading
Trees are in our blood
2012-07-04
Our Forests member Jonathon Porritt, explains why he thinks it is that we love our forests and trees so much we are willing to fight to protect them. Watch the film.Continue Reading
Our Forests campaign posters
2012-06-29
Our Forests has produced a series of posters free for anyone to use in publicising the issues critical in securing the people’s vision for the future of woods and forests in England. The posters reiterate and emphasize our six simple demands for Government: Our woods & forests protected forever! NationalContinue Reading
Early Day Motion in Parliament concerning the future of England’s public forests
2012-06-27
An Early Day Motion (or EDM) has been tabled by Caroline Lucas MP today at UK parliament, calling for a debate on the future of England’s public forests based on the grass roots statement co-ordinated by Our Forests. The EDM can be accessed here. The statement from grass roots organisationsContinue Reading
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