In just over a week I will have been here 6 months – tempus fugit and all that!
 
So what have I been doing all that time?  Our core role is dealing with manuscripts all the way from submission to creating the final printed and bound issue – so each day is a great confection of peer review, copy-editing, proof corrections, and making up issues for print, all sprinkled with a little blogging about top papers.  Right now we are chasing up the last few papers for a great commemorative issue we have coming up, and I’m glad to say that all of my papers look like they will make the deadline (famous last words…).
 
Other dilemmas you face when working here include whether to go the staff chocolate-tasting evening…  More seriously, it’s great to work for a top publisher like the RSC and see some of the best work in the field coming in, so if you are thinking about a career in science but want away from the laboratory bench then publishing could be for you!