{"id":26827,"date":"2009-07-17T16:14:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T16:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/07\/17\/announcement-my-new-project\/"},"modified":"2009-07-17T16:14:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T16:14:42","slug":"announcement-my-new-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/17\/announcement-my-new-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcement: My new project."},"content":{"rendered":"

Some time ago I announced that I was beginning on a new project. It is now time to tell you about it, and to ask for your help.
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\nIt will not be a huge surprise for you to learn that I intend to convert the blog posts known as “The Congo Memoirs<\/a>” into a book. I have contracted with an agent, and I am currently writing a proposal for the book.<\/p>\n

Over the last couple of months, I’ve also been working on the problem of the book’s overall structure, and considering what else it will contain besides the 28 existing Congo Memoirs. Oh, and I should mention right away: This is not a memoir. The very first thing my agent said to me when we met was “… please don’t use the ‘M’ word again. Thank you…”<\/p>\n

So far, this is what I’ve got:<\/p>\n

1) There are a bunch of individual stories that I held back when writing the Congo Mem….oomph .. ah … Stories. The Congo Stories. I’m adding them in.<\/p>\n

2) That set of stories was actually the second time I’d been to the Semliki. By also describing the first, much shorter, visit I can talk more about the regional cultures, geography, ecology, etc.<\/p>\n

3) I am including a healthy dose of the science that was going on, which I largely glossed in the blog posts.<\/p>\n

Many of you have very kindly said that I should do this. Others have presumably thought this without saying it. Still more have, I assume, been hoping I won’t. But to those of you who are behind me on this, I thank you for your encouragement, and now I ask for your help.<\/p>\n

This is a work of non-fiction (plus or minus) so ultimately I will not be the only one deciding what goes in it. My agent has already made excellent suggestions and the publisher, if we get a publisher, will have input as well. But in this case, you as future readers of this book can have meaningful input early on in the process. Tell me what you like, don’t like, what there should be more of, less of. Throw me your two cents and I promise you they won’t go to waste.<\/p>\n

And, since this is not going to be called “The Congo Mem….oomph .. ah … Stories” I need a title. I need a title that will be used for the book proposal I’m writing now. If it is a good title, it may stick. Or it might go away.<\/p>\n

Which one of you has my title?????<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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