{"id":48,"date":"2005-02-01T22:39:03","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T09:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.limestonehills.co.nz\/the-final-countdown\/"},"modified":"2005-02-01T22:39:03","modified_gmt":"2005-02-01T09:39:03","slug":"the-final-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/the-final-countdown\/","title":{"rendered":"The final countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

The wordcount of The Truffle Book<\/span> (see column on the right) has just ratcheted up a few hundred words. I’m a little over a third of the way to my target word-count of 40,000 carefully chosen and finely honed words. Words that can then go to a suitable editor for a second opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a target in mind. I’ve been involved in a small way with Savour New Zealand<\/a>, a gourmet masterclass weekend held every two years in Christchurch. I’ve been a panellist and hosted some of the celebrity presenters up at Limestone Hills (including Antonio Carluccio). This year, Anthony Bourdain<\/a> of Kitchen Confidential<\/span> fame is lined up as the headline guest. If I can get the bloody thing written and published by the second weekend in May, perhaps I can launch it there. Even if I can’t do anything official, perhaps I can stuff fliers into people’s hands, sign copies, go down on bended knees and plead for sales, all the usual marketing things.<\/p>\n

So I have a goal, and that forces me to commit to a schedule. Finish the text by the end of February, design and edit the book during March, and print it during April. The printing part is the only real difficulty – it forces me to use a local printer, which may not be as cost effective as using a Singaporean or other SE Asian press, but that may be no bad thing. I support my local winemakers, so I should be prepared to support my local printer.<\/p>\n

The Truffle Book<\/i> (or whatever it will be called): due in May 2005 from Limestone Hills<\/a> Ltd. Downloads of the first couple of sections free of charge, the full book for about US$10. Printed copies available on bookstalls in NZ, by mail order around the rest of the world. Bookstall publication rights available in all other territories. Translation rights available.<\/p>\n

Form an orderly queue, please.<\/p>\n

And if I haven’t finished writing it by the time my wife gets home from her current overseas trip, I face unspecified sanctions. So I’m working for a quiet life. I hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}