{"id":10946,"date":"2017-02-01T07:56:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T12:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=10946"},"modified":"2017-02-01T07:56:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T12:56:42","slug":"new-book-alert-breakfast-with-einstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2017\/02\/01\/new-book-alert-breakfast-with-einstein\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book Alert: &#8220;Breakfast With Einstein&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I tweeted about this yesterday, but I also spent the entire day feeling achy and feverish, so didn&#8217;t have brains or time for a blog post with more details. I&#8217;m feeling healthier this morning, though time is still short, so I&#8217;ll give a quick summary of the details:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; As you can see in the photo (taken with my phone at Starbucks just before I took these to the post office to mail them), I signed a contract for a new book. Four copies, because lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; The contract is with <a href=\"https:\/\/oneworld-publications.com\/\">Oneworld Publications<\/a> in the UK, who had a best-seller on that side of the pond with <a href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/?cat=4\"><em>How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; The working title of the book is <em>Breakfast With Einstein<\/em>, and the subject matter is basically this talk I gave at TEDxAlbany:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UTEUFihiAm0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The basic idea is to use ordinary morning activities as a hook to talk about the quantum physics underlying everyday phenomena.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; The due date for the book is in December 2017, publication to be sometime in 2018. Probably. You know, publishing&#8211; everything is subject to change.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; There is not yet a US publisher for this book&#8211; we&#8217;ve had some interest, but to my great sorrow and annoyance, <cite>Eureka<\/cite> didn&#8217;t sell well, and that makes things difficult. We&#8217;re still working on getting a publisher for this side of the Atlantic, and when that happens, I&#8217;ll post another cell-phone photo of legal documents. If you&#8217;re a publisher and this sounds interesting, please drop me a line and I&#8217;ll put you in touch with my agent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve known about this for a while&#8211; we agreed to the deal on election day last November, so at least one good thing happened that day&#8211; but transatlantic business deals are more complicated, so it took a while to get everything set up. And now, I&#8217;ve signed the contracts, and I guess I need to write the book. Once I have brains and time for that, which is not this morning.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10947\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10947\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2017\/02\/sm_breakfast_contract.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2017\/02\/sm_breakfast_contract.jpg\" alt=\"The traditional photo of a pile of signed contracts for a new book, just before mailing them.\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10947\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The traditional photo of a pile of signed contracts for a new book, just before mailing them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I tweeted about this yesterday, but I also spent the entire day feeling achy and feverish, so didn&#8217;t have brains or time for a blog post with more details. I&#8217;m feeling healthier this morning, though time is still short, so I&#8217;ll give a quick summary of the details: &#8212; As you can see in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2017\/02\/01\/new-book-alert-breakfast-with-einstein\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Book Alert: &#8220;Breakfast With Einstein&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,663,2,7,51,11,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book_writing","category-everyday","category-personal","category-physics","category-physics_books","category-science","category-science_books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}