{"id":30270,"date":"2015-11-10T18:36:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T23:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=30270"},"modified":"2015-11-10T18:36:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T23:36:18","slug":"anti-christ-handbook-vol-2-arriving-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2015\/11\/10\/anti-christ-handbook-vol-2-arriving-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Anti-Christ Handbook: Vol. 2’ arriving soon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

So at first, it\u2019s all sort of exciting and encouraging. You\u2019re compiling all these things you wrote years ago and revisiting them and everything that\u2019s good about them just sort of jumps out at you. You\u2019d forgotten that joke, but reading it again it\u2019s still funny. You\u2019re surprised by a turn or a tangent or an insight somewhere.<\/p>\n

This is good stuff<\/em>, you think. I\u2019m proud<\/em> of this. This is going to be good<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"LongMarchKwik2\"<\/a>But then you\u2019ve got to do some more careful copyediting and proofreading. You\u2019ve got to format the thing and then double-check the formatting. And now you\u2019re reading it all over and over and over again and what jumps out at you is all the quirks, the tics, the repetition, the clunkers and not-quite-successful punchlines.<\/p>\n

And long before you\u2019re finished with all of that, you\u2019re tired of this stuff. You can barely manage to force yourself to skim it all one last time. But you do, you force yourself to do it until finally you\u2019re at last done with it, even though at that point you\u2019ve made so many corrections that you\u2019re certain you\u2019d never really be done \u2014 certain that it\u2019s still riddled with typos and errors and all sorts of embarrassing mistakes you were unable to catch because you just can\u2019t stand to look at it even one more time.<\/p>\n

Then you click publish.<\/p>\n

And now, at this point, when you can\u2019t even stand the sight of the thing anymore \u2014 this is when you\u2019re supposed to pivot into marketing mode. Now you\u2019ve got to turn around and tell everybody how great it is.<\/p>\n

This is why I\u2019m glad that the Kindle publishing feature has this 12-hour delay built-in. I can still, vaguely, remember just a short while ago thinking \u201cThis is good stuff .. this is going to be good.\u201d But right now? Ugh.<\/p>\n

Give me 12 hours, though, and the realization that this is no longer a chore will sink in. I\u2019ll be able to go back to looking at it and thinking of it in terms other than as that endless, oppressive chore of proofing and editing and formatting. And those jokes will start to seem funny to me again.<\/p>\n

That still won\u2019t fix the fact that I\u2019m not very good at this whole marketing and promotion deal. But give me 12 hours and I should, at least, be back to wanting<\/em> to do it.<\/p>\n

All of which is to say that The Anti-Christ Handbook: Volume 2<\/em> should be available for purchase tomorrow on Amazon.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking for something to read in the meantime, allow me to recommend The Anti-Christ Handbook Vol. 1<\/a>,<\/em> or perhaps Long March of the Koalas<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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