Michaela Lavender

Bio

I am the managing editor of Public Money & Management—PMM— and I’m based in Boca Raton, Florida. My career has always been in journal publishing, although when I trained, newly out of college, I was required to engage briefly with books. I am not a fan: a book has a short life while a journal can be almost immortal (Philosophical Transactions is now 360 years old). In fact, as a warning, there is an old adage that if you publish your paper in a multiauthor book you may as well dig a hole in your garden and bury it! I began with Taylor & Francis when the company was small and privately owned. I had the good luck to be trained by a printer’s reader in editing, we had a printing factory attached to our building, and we were very hands on with our journals, their editors and our typesetters. The company had some very old journals but was also starting to publish on behalf of societies, buying journals and launching new ones. I particularly enjoyed getting new journals off the ground and resuscitating failing ones. It was a much simpler life than today’s journal publishers lead: we sold by subscription and that’s how we knew how a journal was doing. So that’s me. And please note my bias towards, and fondness of, journals!

BPharm, Reproductive Health/Ethnopharmacology Research Group.

BPharm, Reproductive Health/Ethnopharmacology Research Group.