{"id":18162,"date":"2010-10-20T14:33:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T21:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drjimtaylor.com\/blog\/?p=972"},"modified":"2010-10-20T14:33:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T21:33:32","slug":"new-book-preparation-ahead-of-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/new-book-preparation-ahead-of-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest News: New book preparation ahead of schedule!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I signed the contract for my third parenting book, tentatively titled, Parenting on Message: The 9 Essential Messages to Give Your Child a Great Start to Life (The Experiment Publishing) in mid-August, I have been under the gun (metaphorically speaking) to send my publisher a workable draft by Dec. 17th in order to have the book published in the Spring of 2011 (otherwise, I would have to wait another year for publication).<\/p>\n<p>So for the past two months, I have been eating, sleeping, and drinking this book, knocking off about a chapter a week. Well, I am pleased to report that the manuscript is progressing nicely and am just finishing up my second-to-last chapter (about 65,000 words to date) and expect to have my first draft finished by Nov. 1st. I&#8217;ll then have about six weeks to flesh out, edit, and finalize the manuscript before submission to my publisher.<\/p>\n<p>The writing process has been grueling, but exhilarating, synapse bursting and fun.<\/p>\n<p>More news as it develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I signed the contract for my third parenting book, tentatively titled, Parenting on Message: The 9 Essential Messages to Give Your Child a Great Start to Life (The Experiment Publishing) in mid-August, I have been under the gun (metaphorically speaking) to send my publisher a workable draft by Dec. 17th in order to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1618],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}