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<\/a>Hodder’s offices in London – fortunately there are good lifts!<\/p><\/div>\n
For example, last week I met Victoria, my editor and a couple of other folks at Hodder for a chat. It’s possible to go through the entire process of writing and publishing a book without doing this (I did it for my first book!) but as I was in London to train clients (Dell Corporation) I figured it was worth the tube.<\/p>\n
Besides, I was meeting my daughter and she allowed me to pay for her meal out :)<\/p>\n
The confusion lies in the (frankly) labyrinthine administration that a book proposal must navigate before it gets to the Holy Land called “Contract”. Now that I’ve agreed to write the book, there’s a formal proposal to send (done). This then goes to an informal review (done) and a formal review (to come). At each stage, the plan is to look for things that can go wrong.<\/p>\n
That means that chapter titles are needed to prove the book has legs; it means sample chapters are needed to prove you can write!; and it means a decent CV is needed to reassure people you’re credible. Let’s face it, publishing houses are businesses and they’re only going to publish something if they are convinced they<\/strong> can make money out of it. In today’s world, that’s not easy. That said<\/p>\n the book has been unanimously approved by the relevant committees so now I’ve got to get on with it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I’m going to publish next week on what tools, software and so on that I’m using – it’s nothing revolutionary but it might be interesting! \u00a0 As an aside, the image I’m using for these posts at the moment is a screen grab of a piece of note-taking software I use called Evernote. \u00a0It’s wonderful and it’s free: what’s not to love?!?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Okay, so where are we then? It’s been a bit confusing and a bit exciting on the book front. For example, last week I met Victoria, my editor and a couple of other folks at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-of-success-presenting-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2799,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions\/2799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}