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Sunday, February 28, 2021

Mille Regretez


by Christopher Hodapp

Deepest apologies for no updated stories here for the last couple of weeks. Alice and I are in the final deadline week for our new book project. 

Folks have asked what we're working on, and since Wiley has now put up the pre-sale listing on Amazon, there's no point being coy about it anymore. RVs and Campers For Dummies is due to be officially released on June 24th, 2021.

The Wiley Publishing folks operate a well-oiled machine, and they have a definitive working methodology from which we cannot deviate. So we're burrowed in, wrapping up the manuscript and photo submissions. What that means in practical terms is wake up, type, forage for food, type, pass out, wake up, type, pass out, rinse, repeat. Phone calls and emails go unanswered, and if we could teach the poodle to use the can opener, we'd have her cook something. 

Once we've sent off the last of it, we get three weeks of 'author review,' which means the editors pore over the manuscript, make corrections, edits, and suggestions, rearrange paragraphs and whole chapters, put it back together again before the art and production teams do their stuff. And then we get to crawl outside, and if we see our shadows, we know there are six more weeks before publication.

5 comments:

  1. “RVs,” as in Right Venerables? “Campers,” as in Grand Encampment?

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    1. Whew! And I thought this book would be about camping and traveling. What a relief! 😅

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    2. Yes. Precisely. Like this Grand Encampment photo.

      https://cdn.airstream.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Airstream-african-egypt-pyramids.jpg

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  2. Is there a relation with Freemasonry?

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    1. There will be, even if I have to stuff it in there with a crowbar.

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