I was talking to my dad, who's a neurosurgeon. He had this academic paper he wanted to publish. Journals take about 18 months to publish a paper, and he just wanted to get things up there.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It takes a long time to publish a book.
I've been with the paper for almost 30 years.
I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.
From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.
I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
Traditional publishers require an author to submit a manuscript six months in advance, and if pressed, no later than two or three.
After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.
I struggled for a long time to get anything published.
I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.