You no longer need hold your breath. The Pocket Guide update you've long been waiting for has arrived.
Sports Fans? Put down your remotes.
Gamblers? Set the cards aside.
Whoremongers? Stop all that mongering.
1. Pocket Guide to the Afterlife 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.
But anyway, it's done.
2. Pocket Guide to Sainthood 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.
This book-writing thing involves more stages than the Tour de France.
3. I've sold, signed, and shipped 202 copies of Pocket Guide to the Bible since making it available here. 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!
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 magazine covers in the late 80s. Or you can put them in a blender, just to see what happens.
Friday, June 6, 2008
Update on the Pocket Guides
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yay! (just a general yay for your post)
K, I ordered a pair, and we’ve been using one of them for Family Devotions. (The other went to our youth pastor.) I’ve never seen the fam so Inspired and Enthused and Euthanized about the Christian life before, so I ordered up more copies– for each of the kids, and for my mother-in-law who asked for one but probably won’t get the humor.
SCENE 1, BEDTIME
MOM: (yawns) Well, it's time for bed. (gives meaningful look to Dad)
DAD: Ho hum, look at the time. 'Night, girls.
KID 2: Daddy, you need to read some more of that book to us!
KID 1: Yaay!
MOM: (sighs)
DAD: (groans) Okay, okay. Let's see, where were we? Oh, yes. 'Jabez'.
KIDS: (smile contentedly as they listen to Dad's melodious voice)
MOM: (looks resigned and frustrated)
Oh Yes, ye must acquire this book. If for nothing else than for the biographical sketch of Jabez.
-Jim Bob
i'm excited for more pocket guides! i suggested to our youth pastor that he use the PGBible w/ his leaders or youth group and gave him the link to your site. hopefully he'll buy some!
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