6/12/2023 0 Comments The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford StollBut also, afterwards, it's neat to just explore publishing land. And so for me writing the book was partly learning about how you make a chapter interesting, how do you develop a character, and how you say what actually happened in your life. It was just fun to learn how all of these things interact. People start worrying what kind of binding should it have and how should the cover art work be designed and then finding that there's acid-free paper and there's this kind of paper. Why don't you throw it away?" Except for that they left it as is, and it was neat to see how at first the editor takes charge and it goes into production. They pretty much left everything intact and said, "Hey, that chapter's pretty boring. I thought the publisher would sit there with the high-paid editor carefully going over every phrase that I wrote. You'd expect - you send them computer disks with all your words already preprocessed for them - no, they want everything typewritten. STOLL: First of all they are not computerized.
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