At long last and three weeks past the deadline my book is finished! I submitted an electronic version to the publisher yesterday evening and put the hard copy in the post to my editor today. I don’t intend to give it any thought whatsoever (after completing this blog post) until the manuscript returns from review….
Tag: book progress
Book Update
Time for an update on the old book. I have to admit that I’m really starting to get bored of this manuscript now. I’m spending far too much time with it. But, having said that, I continue to make good progress despite regular bouts of procrastination, and I’m getting close to being able to ‘sign…
Quick book update
I’m making slow but steady progress. Have been through the manuscript now, making minor edits along the way and identifying sections that need more work. It was with enormous relief that I found my thesis in fairly good shape. It doesn’t need extensive work to get it into an acceptable state for publication. Phew! I’ve…
Book update – chapters
About time for a book update I think! I’m making slow, but steady progress. I am now just over halfway through my initial trawl of my thesis, editing, making minor revisions and highlighting sections that require more attention. To my surprise I’m finding it possible to critically analyse my writing with quite a level of…
Image permissions…
…are surprisingly taxing. I finally finished my grid of illustrations I would like to use in the book, where and how, copyright holders (where available) and how to contact them. I have currently earmarked around 50 images, most of which come from different sources. A great many are fairly straightforward – it’s clear whom the…
Book Update #1
I promised myself that I’d use this blog to chart my progress on the book project…and then promptly forgot! Not that I haven’t made some efforts in the right direction. I finished reading William Germano’s excellent (and recommended) From Dissertation to Book (University of Chicago Press, 2005). It has given me some reassurance that the ‘proto-book’…
Book!
So, that mysterious news I alluded to at the start of the year is a little more concrete. In the past week I’ve signed a publishing agreement with Ashgate to produce a book based on my PhD thesis for publication in 2014! And so now the tough business of sitting down and writing the damn…