Today I finalised my manuscript, printed it out, annotated it, made sure all the figures were there, that they had the least ugly photos of me, burned the CD, and ticked all the boxes. Tomorrow, Species: A history of the idea physically travels to University of California Press, where they will do publishing things to it until it instantiates as a book. This is great, given that I am now in the job market, with an actual interview in two weeks, and possibly many more to come. What gets up my nose is that the Australian department of education treats a 300pp book as the equivalent of five published papers! Hell, there's enough material in there for 20 damn papers. More fool me for not publishing them, I guess.
I will be finalising my Sourcebook next week, I hope. Then the evolution of religion anthology the week after.
Anyhoo, this is by way of explaining why I haven't graced you all with bad puns and fine wit lately.
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Yeah!!!
Congrats!!!
When do you go on tour to promote it? :-)
Congratulations on finally getting the book off the stocks. I look forward to reading it. Best wishes for the job interviews as well.
Your next book needs to be more populist, though, something along the lines of Agnosticism: Probably The Best Idea In The World.
w00t!
I believe this is the appropriate expression. Good luck with the interviews - would threatening to sit on the panel be of any help?
Congratulations, John! I can't wait to read it, and best of luck with the interviews.
Yah hoo! Can't wait to get my copy!
Not fair you should have to do it all, so let's get the ball rolling again.
If the Republican candidate for Vice-President had a flunkey whose name spelled the same backwards as forwards, would that make them a Palin-drone?
Oh, and while we're on the subject:
Balham! (Gateway To The South!)
Good luck.
Congratulations. If the book is half as entertaining as your blog, it should be a fantastic read.
Congratulations! It's a great feeling!
Congratulations & good luck with the job interviews.
Congratulations definitely in order. Good luck with the future interviews.
Well done John! If nothing else, I will guarantee to buy your books. So that's one sale at least! ;-)
Good luck with the job interviews and congratulations on the offloading of tomes to publishers.
Louis
... "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"
Will the book be sold here in California by the alleged local publisher or will we have to swim to Oz to get it? There is one of those university things down the street, maybe they will buy a few.
Seriously, how will one get a copy?
Oh, and Mazel Tov!
I look forward to it.
Matty (NZ).
@Susan Silberstein:
Can it really be as difficult as that? The last time I looked (30 seconds ago on the Net, just to be sure), University Press Books was still on Bancroft Way. Should be possible to talk them into getting the book.
Oh, and second the Mazel Tov.
As to the Palin Drone: again doing the Bay Area news beat, we find a local quoted in Garchik's column:
Wasilla's all I saw.
I may buy it when it comes to Australia John. I have Stephen Jay Goulds book The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, then when I buy your book it will supplement what he had to say. Congratulations John
Shouldn't that read; fine puns and bad wit?
Congratulations!
Does your book include the definition of species?
The book will be available through all shady bookselling outlets, including, as one might expect, the University of California Press website. Sometime next year, I guess.
The book includes many species definitions, so you get to pick your poisson.
Actually, it's bad puns, and half wit.
There's an Alice quote that I start it off with:
Congratulations, John. Now you'll have to start writing something else.
It appears we may have read the same book. I have the 1960 edition of "The Annotated Alice, With an Introduction and Notes by" Martin Gardner (yes, *that* Martin Gardner).
That would be "The Annotated Alice", which includes an introduction and notes by Martin Gardner.
Congratulations, John. That's got to induce a feeling of accomplishment.
Doesn't everybody own a copy of this book?
"this is by way of explaining why I haven't graced you all with pad buns and fit wine lately."
Was that a bad pun at all?
Congrats! I look forward to reading it.