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June 16, 2005

My book has a home

Times Books has agreed to publish my book, Everything is Miscellaneous.

I'm very happy about this. They are a great publisher and my editor, Robin Dennis, is going to give the guidance I need to write the book in a way that people (we hope!) will want to read. She is, by the way, Jay Rosen's editor as well.

I have a year to write it and should come out in Jan. 2007, which only sounds like a long time away if you're not facing it as a deadline. [Technorati tag: EverythingIsMiscellaneous]

Speaking of Jay, his blog won the Reporters without Borders Freedom Blog award. Woohoo! Where would we be without PressThink?

Jay graciously points to his fellow winners:

It's a serious honor to share that page with Shared Pains, which is a blog from Afghanistan in Arabic, with Al Jinane, written in French by a Moroccan, with ICTlex, which is like an Italian Lessig, with netzpolitik.org, or Net Politics in German, and especially with Mojtaba Saminejad of Iran> (whose story of imprisonment is told here and here) and Screenshots...by Jeff Ooi (see Dan Gillmor on Ooi's struggle with the thought police in Malaysia.) For them, international recognition is vital, possibly a matter of life and death.

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Posted by D. Weinberger at June 16, 2005 10:31 AM

Comments

Congratulations, David! Finding a publisher can be hard, as I know personally. A great editor is a real plus!

Posted by: Tim | June 16, 2005 02:12 PM

Great news, Dr. D! Are you going to follow the Small Pieces process -- i.e., post ideas/drafts for discussion?

BTW, that's Farsi in the blog Shared Pains. They kinda look the same, but linguistically are totally different.

Posted by: w | June 16, 2005 09:49 PM

Congrats on the book! Very happy that it's found a home and we can look forward to telling everything how they have to read it!

Posted by: Jay Fienberg | June 17, 2005 01:06 PM

Excellent news! Been meaning to call to ask how this was going. Now I can wait another six months and call to pester you about writer's block. No, no, terrible bad joke. Serious congratulations, very happy for you. btw, have you looked at...

Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences
http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0262522950/

Hey, and here's where you can start spending up that advance:

Linnaeus' Philosophia Botanica, paper, $99
http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0198569343/

Posted by: RB | June 18, 2005 01:50 PM

RB, thanks. Let's talk before our calling cards expire.

Yes, I'm familiar with Sorting Things Out. It's an amazing book.

Posted by: David Weinberger | June 18, 2005 02:06 PM

I love being with the same publisher and editor as you, Dave. Thanks for the kind words too.

Posted by: Jay Rosen | June 18, 2005 09:45 PM

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