Thought twice about posting this as it's a bit of self promotion, but what the heck - it's a big achievement for me and I'm used to upsetting people on here anyway
As some of you may be aware I do a fair bit of writing as part of my business - articles, white papers, industry analysis, etc. and in the past I have also written a few chapters for different publications. Well, at the beginning of last May I was asked to write a full length book. I was really in two minds about it - the publisher already had a subject that they wanted the book written on and this isn't exactly the prime time to be publishing business books! In the end I agreed, if only because it would help my business - there's certainly no money in it unless you have a celebrity name to sell the book. Well ever since I've been wondering why the heck I agreed to it, 120,000+ words, plus a whole bunch of tables and figures, plus of course the whole editing process.
Well today two things happened that are pretty major milestones - I completed the last piece of content (which is actually bonus online content that is available through the publisher's website) and I received the soft copy production draft from the publisher - basically the final layout minus the index for my review and approval - all 350 pages of it
So after a little more than 10 months of doing something for the book almost every day it is finally done. It's a very weird feeling - knowing that it is going to be put out there for others to judge and that there is nothing that I can do about it now. There are going to be a few weird days ahead I am sure - the day that it goes on Amazon for pre-order, the day that the first copy turns up in the mail, the day that I get the first review, etc. but for now at least it's done - it's now in the hands of the publisher to get it through production and assign an official publication date.
I'm deliberately not providing too much detail here because I don't want anyone to think that I am trying to use the forum to sell books, and it's pretty specialised anyway - organizational risk management within project portfolios (that's not the title), but it is such a sense of relief to finally be done, and a very surreal feeling to see the 'almost' book in the same day.
It's not "50 Shades of Organizational Risk Management" is it?
