Pat,
I love you :) and I sympathize even more with you -- you worked on your
husband's stuff and didn't get paid!
let's elaborate on the work that no one sees:
the way marlene and I wrote was:
we divided the chapters, she wrote some, I wrote others, I did the copy-edit
and pageproofing
So for each chapter:
1) either I wrote it or I read what Marlene wrote (and she did the same for
me, we edited each other's work before we even sent the 1st draft in to the
publisher)
2) send the chapter to the tech editor
3) review the tech editor's comments and incorporate suggested changes
4) send the chapter in to the publisher for copy-edit
5) review the copy editor's changes and either change things back or accept
them
6) read the initial set of page proofs (yes, copy on paper of what the page
will look like) and find and correct all errors
7) because I am anal about errors, and my editors know this, I get a final
set of page proofs to review and catch anything I missed the first time
8) get a bound copy of the book and look through it one last time
So, not only do I spend hours writing a chapter, once it's written I have to
see it over and over and over and OVER again until I am deathly sick of the
chapter and convinced that what we have on the page is garbage that no one
will want to read.
Rachel
>From: Pat Hildebrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Thanks and another book request
>Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 13:10:08 -0800
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>
> >
> > Rachael
> >
> > > consultant for that number of hours.... Not profitable to write one.
> >
> > The very fact that you often repeat this in response to mails that refer
>to
> > your books, makes us think otherwise $$$
> >
>
>I have not written any Oracle books but I have had enough experience
>with publishers that I really have to step in here. My husband
>happened to be one of three authors on a monograph that had enough
>popularity to stick around for quite awhile now. Want to guess his
>share of the yearly royalties (split equally between the three of
>them)? Approximately $100. Okay over twenty years that's a couple
>thousand. He repeatly said that the only reason to write a book was
>because you got mad at what was available; it certainly wasn't for the
>money. The monograph was not something that would need to be updated
>all the time the way an Oracle book would be.
>
>The need for new editions opens up the book to driving your life. I
>did some work on supplemental work for my husband's textbooks and
>trying that with a full time job is something I would not wish on my
>worst enemy. Impossible deadlines still need to be met by you but
>don't count on getting things back when promised - your time to make
>the changes is just squeezed.
>
>If Rachael is one of the really limited number of people who make what
>might be considered a reasonable return on her time, I say more power
>to her. However, it is more likely that she has to repeat because
>people don't believe her.
>
>
>
> Pat
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