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December 22, 2004

Book Bits

We shipped Batman: Cover to Cover to the printer yesterday. Months of intense work and constant revision are now over. Our designer, Robbin Brosterman, is exhausted from the concentrated effort but she created a beautiful book. It’s going to be exciting in a few weeks to see the first press proofs from Hong Kong. Then there’s going to be that long wait until May when the book hits the shelves and I hear what people not connected to the project think.

At least I have a few other big projects in the offing to fuss with.

Meantime, I hear from my colleagues that the DC Comics Encyclopedia is DK’s best selling title of the season. Great news to hear. I’m still awaiting word on the second printing (as opposed to a revised, second edition) and continue to collect errata.

And as for current writing, tomorrow I should complete the first draft of the book on Ancient Chinese Technology so I’m comfortably ahead of schedule. Just need one more idea to complete the three I intend to submit for a media tie-in project that is accepting pitches for another week or so.

With luck 2005 will slowly and calmly fill with interesting writing projects.

Posted by Bob Greenberger at December 22, 2004 02:34 PM

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The Previews Guide says Batman Cover to Cover will ship first week of May.


The DC Comics Encyclopedia is a great book. I'm planning to nominate it for the Hugo for Best Related Book, and I hope many other people do the same.

Posted by: Michael A. Burstein [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 22, 2004 04:02 PM

Looking forward to the Encyclopedia. I know its under the tree. I bought it for someone else and my wife freaked when she saw it till I told her it was for a friend. :-D

Posted by: JAG [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 23, 2004 06:55 AM

Now there's a truly pleasant image and circumstances triggering such an image to contemplate! Too bad I already bought myself one, as I could've triggered it from one of my relatives!

:-D

Yours,

Dwight

Posted by: Dwight Williams at December 23, 2004 09:30 AM

Just wanted to say hi, Bob. I've been enjoying the blog since Mark Evanier first posted a link to it.

It's nice to see that after all these years, some things never change. As the holidays close in, Robbin is pushing to complete the design on another book. Glad she's stll there, doing her usual fine job. Say "hi" to her for me.

Posted by: Jim Chadwick at December 23, 2004 01:04 PM

Man, I wish I could afford Batman Cover to Cover. And I'm not even a Batman fan. It looks like it's going to be a really good book.

I'm hoping the DC Encyclopedia will make it under the tree, but the tree has nothing under it right now, so I have my doubts.

Posted by: Laura Gjovaag at December 23, 2004 09:41 PM

Is there a particular place or forum for reporting DC Encyclopedia Errata? I'm such a nerd that I've been noticing a few (very few I'd like to add) wrong pieces of data. I'd hate to report things that have already been reported, though. Is there a central gathering place for such details?

Posted by: Jim Kosmicki at December 25, 2004 05:07 PM