{"id":401,"date":"2008-06-06T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T06:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/06\/update-on-the-pocket-guides.html"},"modified":"2008-06-06T06:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T06:02:00","slug":"update-on-the-pocket-guides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/06\/update-on-the-pocket-guides.html","title":{"rendered":"Update on the Pocket Guides"},"content":{"rendered":"

You no longer need hold your breath.<\/span> The Pocket Guide update you’ve long been waiting for has arrived.<\/p>\n

Sports Fans? Put down your remotes.<\/p>\n

Gamblers? Set the cards aside.<\/p>\n

Whoremongers<\/a>? Stop all that mongering.<\/p>\n

1. <\/span>Pocket Guide to the Afterlife<\/span> is done. D-O-N-E. At least, the first draft is finished. Then my wife has to read it. Then she makes suggestions. Then I take her suggestions very seriously and read it again myself. Then I make a few more edits to it. Then I send it to my publisher so they can make edits and suggestions and send it back to me.<\/p>\n

But anyway, it’s done.<\/p>\n

2. <\/span>Pocket Guide to Sainthood<\/span> is in the edits-suggested-by-the-publisher stage. The good news is that they like it. A lot. There is no bad news. Just a few edits to make — make this funnier, state this better, quit beginning so many sentences with “And…” — and then I’ll probably read through it one more time. Just for kicks. Then we’ll move out of the draft stage and into another editing stage.<\/p>\n

This book-writing thing involves more stages than the Tour de France<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3. <\/span>I’ve sold, signed, and shipped 202 copies of Pocket Guide to the Bible<\/span> since making it available here<\/a>. That means, out of my original 9053, I’ve only got 8851 to go! Look how optimistic I am as I type these exclamation marks! Yay!<\/p>\n

Have you bought a copy or two for yourself? At these prices, you can buy a bunch, then leave one for the tip every time you go out to eat. Or you can rip the covers off and wallpaper your bathroom with them, like I used to do with Sports Illustrated<\/span> magazine covers<\/a> in the late 80s. Or you can put them in a blender, just to see what happens<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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