Posts Tagged “books”
All morning, I kept listening for the tell-tale drone of the UPS truck. False alarms made me all jittery, then crushed my spirit. Finally, mid-day, these arrived: Books! Not a mere idea, not a bunch of InDesign files, but real, live, don’t-stub-your-toe-on-the-boxes books! Charts Made Simple was so long in the making, I wasn’t sure […]
Limbo
By JC | November 23, 2010
With Charts Made Simple in the printer’s hands, I’m kind of at loose ends. Tasks that had been sucking up gobs of time are now completed, but I’m not ready to start anything new. Just the thought of beginning a large project—book or otherwise—gives me the heebie-jeebies at the moment. So instead I’m looking to […]
This morning, FedEx dropped off a long-awaited package: print proofs for Charts Made Simple. The color cover was separate from the interior, and the interior had been printed on lighter-weight paper than will be used for the actual book. But the proofs were bound. It’s starting to look like a real book. So I spent […]
Blog fodder has been a bit sparse lately. Not much knitting. No stash enhancement. No trip to Rhinebeck. sigh Rather, it’s been nose-to-grindstone, getting Charts Made Simple ready to go to the printer. Hoo boy, does self-publishing entail taking care of a million little details! Especially for a first book: choosing a printer, buying a […]
Checklists
By JC | May 10, 2010
Yes, yes, I know this is a knitting blog. Bear with me for a minute. I’m currently reading The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. It’s the third of three fabulous books by author Atul Gawande, a surgeon. His previous books, Better and Complications, explore the question of why things go wrong, despite the […]