My Book

So, I wrote a book. It's a pretty nerdy math/science book. Books are hard to write - A lot harder than they are to read. I've been working on it for a year or two. It wasn't just the writing, but the researching stuff took a lot of time.

So the researching and writing is hard, but even if you do that all you have is a book. I figured at least I could do a self-publishing thing, but they say that those rarely work out. They say they usually sell well less that a hundred copies.

So if you can find a company to publish your book, that is a better way to go. That meant researching that process. It turns out you write what they call a query letter to see if they are interested. Its a one page thing, so no big deal. Then if they are interested, they invite you to send them a proposal. That is usually thirty to fifty pages.

Anyway, a company liked my proposal. They sent me a letter back with a contract. Now I have to do a few add-ons like a bibliography, endnotes, and acknowledgements. I'll do that in the next couple weeks, then send the manuscript to them. Then I wait quite a while for them to do their thing. They send me a final proof to look through, and at that point, the last thing is for me to add an index.

It probably isn't going to be a real book until sometime in 2017.

For the moment, guess what? I'm in Virginia. Yeah, its a long story. But, great blogging material, so I'll be doing that the next few weeks.