Good news from O'Reilly yesterday. Seems that the PTBs have approved our book. contracts are on the way. Now we have just over two weeks to produce "two substantial" chapters so we'd better get going.
If you hear me moaning about gnat over the next six months it's because he'll be hassling me to write stuff.
And ...
gnat on 2002-11-07T16:43:42
... if you hear me griping about Dave it's because he's been job-hunting or actually working instead of writing. Jobs, families, houses
... all are significant derailers of book projects, unfortunately. We're contemplating a clause in the standard contract that prevents an author from moving until the ms is in production
...
--Nat
(just kidding, if you couldn't tell)
What book are you writing?
I've looked in your journal (though not completely thoroughly) and I've looked at your web site, but I can't find anything about this book you're going to be writing. What is it?
