{"id":2506,"date":"2009-03-05T20:09:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T01:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2009-03-05T20:09:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T01:09:51","slug":"watching-an-idea-become-incarnate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2506","title":{"rendered":"Watching an idea become incarnate"},"content":{"rendered":"

It occurs to me that you might be interested<\/strong> to know the inside story on the glamorous, high-energy process of getting a book published. So I\u2019ll tell you where I am as of today with West Oversea<\/i> (available soon wherever fine books are sold. Ask for it by name).<\/p>\n

A couple days back I got e-mails from my publisher and my editor, asking for input on the actual production of the physical book.<\/p>\n

I got a .pdf of the manuscript as it\u2019s been laid out, and the editor wanted my opinions on some issues. Would I mind if they moved the List of Characters from the back to the front? (Not at all.) What did I think of the \u201cKells\u201d font? (I love it with a love that is more than love, but I think the body of the back cover copy should be in something more immediately readable.) Can I get some kind of blurb for this book, to supplement the reviews of older books? (Yes, I can. In fact I was amazed at the enthusiasm with which a couple fairly prominent personages, whom I know only by e-mail, agreed to read the galleys and write something for us. One guy I\u2019d really hoped for isn\u2019t answering my e-mails, but you can\u2019t have everything.)<\/p>\n

I mailed her a sheaf of copies of my old reviews yesterday, along with a copy of The Year of the Warrior<\/i>, because she\u2019d like this volume to resemble that earlier volume a little. (Which is nice.)<\/p>\n

She notes that I\u2019ll have to make some changes in the Afterword, where I thank people. That\u2019s more true than she knows. I wrote the Afterword back in 2002, and at least one (very likely two; I\u2019m not sure yet) of the people I thanked have passed away in the intervening Seven Lean Years. And I suspect I\u2019ll want to thank her too, before I\u2019m done.<\/p>\n

This is one of the best parts of the process. I can\u2019t wait to see the cover art. And looking forward to holding the actual, bound book in my hands is\u2014well, I won\u2019t say it\u2019s like waiting for your child to be born. The two things aren\u2019t even in the same ballpark (from all I hear). Let\u2019s say it\u2019s like waiting for the puppies to be born.
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It occurs to me that you might be interested to know the inside story on the glamorous, high-energy process of getting a book published. So I\u2019ll tell you where I am as of today with West Oversea (available soon wherever fine books are sold. Ask for it by name). A couple days back I got … Continue reading Watching an idea become incarnate<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}