Is It Possible? It’s Really Done?

I think I’ve mentioned before that I and three others have been working on writing a textbook about medical terminology. This project has been in the works since 2004.

It’s so hard to believe, but it appears to be done. DONE. DONE. As in, it’s at the printer being printed now! FINIS!

For the last several weeks, two of my coauthors have been wrapping it up, doing all the last-minute corrections and changes, and proofreading the laid out pages to make it consistent and gorgeous. So I’ve been out of the loop.

Imagine my delight when I read these two paragraphs in two emails from my coauthor Elena (PH = Prentice Hall):

“FYI, the little book [OUR BOOK] went to the printer this week! It was crazy the past few weeks getting last-minute changes made to 2^nd page proofs…Bruce and I have been joined at the hip (but I couldn’t think of a nicer man…).”

“As for the little book[OUR BOOK], it should be ready within 6 weeks. I’ll keep you posted! I feel very positive about this book, and think it will be a big seller! It seems that PH is also very excited, and they’re preparing to wow their sales reps at their national sales meeting in August, to get them excited, too.”

Posted In: kids on June 27, 2008 Comments (4)

4 Responses to “Is It Possible? It’s Really Done?”

amaniellen
June 27, 2008 at 12:54 pm

Congratulations on a long-time coming! Brava!

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dakini_grl
June 27, 2008 at 2:56 pm

This is AWESOME! Yay! Do you get a slice of the sales?!?!?!? So exciting.

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sarabellae
June 27, 2008 at 7:38 pm

Thanks! I get a tiny percentage of the royalties. We’ll see how much that ends up being. My hope has always been that it will be enough to pay part of Lucas’s tuition every year. Now I will have to figure out another book to write to someday make a portion of Asher’s tuition on royalties.

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toxgunn
June 29, 2008 at 2:08 am

woohoo! most excellent – well done!

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