You are not done with a book when the writing is completed. But that is like congratulating a soul for having just reached hell. Many people I know think that a book is completed once you submit a final manuscript to your editor, and they congratulate me for finally getting done. Right now we are pretty confident that the book, Life of the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure, will be available by mid-summer. The labor shortages and supply-chain issues affecting so many other industries have also hit book publishing, so that will entail some more delays. The drudgery of copy-editing is next, and while that is happening I still have to laboriously write up all of the memos and forms required for maps, illustrations and photographs, and my acknowledgments section. I submitted my final manuscript in November, spent December cutting about 35,000 words so that this resembles a general interest title and not the World Book Encyclopedia and now I am doing line edits. Thanks to all who have written asking when my book will be out.
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