{"id":3702,"date":"2009-05-25T09:57:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T09:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/05\/25\/what-happens-when-you-publish\/"},"modified":"2009-05-25T09:57:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T09:57:25","slug":"what-happens-when-you-publish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/05\/25\/what-happens-when-you-publish\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens When You Publish a Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/inversesquare.wordpress.com\/\">Inverse Square Blog<\/a>, Tom Levenson is doing a series of blog posts walking through the steps involved in getting a book published. Unfortunately, there isn&#8217;t a compact way to link to the whole series, but the posts to date are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/inversesquare.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/15\/what-happens-when-you-publish-a-book-newton-and-the-counterfeitertoms-personal-experience-no-0-0\/\">Part 0: Introduction to the Series<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/inversesquare.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/15\/diary-of-a-trade-book-newton-and-the-counterfeiter-1-0-the-proposal\/\">Part 1.0: The Proposal<\/a> (with an example to look at)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/inversesquare.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/19\/diary-of-a-trade-book-newton-and-the-counterfeiter-2-0-agents\/\">Part 2.0: Agents<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/inversesquare.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/20\/diary-of-trade-book-newton-and-the-counterfeiter-2-5-agents-and-publishers\/\">Part 2.5: Agents and Publishers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not all the way through the publishing process for my first book yet, and my path into the whole business was sufficiently idiosyncratic that I&#8217;m not all that comfortable giving advice, but I don&#8217;t have any hesitation about recommending that you read these posts if you&#8217;re interested in looking inside the sausage factory of non-fiction publishing.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the advice about agents is really good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Inverse Square Blog, Tom Levenson is doing a series of blog posts walking through the steps involved in getting a book published. Unfortunately, there isn&#8217;t a compact way to link to the whole series, but the posts to date are: Part 0: Introduction to the Series Part 1.0: The Proposal (with an&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/05\/25\/what-happens-when-you-publish\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Happens When You Publish a Book<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,18,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book_writing","category-books","category-pop_culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702","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=3702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}