{"id":26520,"date":"2014-06-28T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T05:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26520"},"modified":"2014-06-26T14:50:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T19:50:23","slug":"qotd-the-dangers-of-self-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/06\/28\/qotd-the-dangers-of-self-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The dangers of self-publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Call from the project manager on a big, glossy, high-end coffee-table book I recently proofread &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Manager<\/strong>: Oh. My. God! We can&#8217;t possibly implement all these changes! There&#8217;s just red EVERYwhere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me<\/strong>: They&#8217;re not changes, they&#8217;re corrections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PM<\/strong>: But it&#8217;ll take days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me<\/strong>: Yes, and because there are so many I suggest you get someone to read it again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PM<\/strong>: But we go to print on Friiiiiday *wail*<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me<\/strong>: Maybe the editor should look at it again then. Who&#8217;s the editor?<\/p>\n<p><strong>PM<\/strong>: The author. And me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me<\/strong>: No, who&#8217;s the E-D-I-T-O-R?<\/p>\n<p><strong>PM<\/strong>: No, seriously, the author and me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me<\/strong>: No frikkin&#8217; kidding. (Okay, that was under my breath&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=728642917196072&#038;id=113877455339291\" target=\"_blank\">Publish Cape Town, <em>Facebook<\/em><\/a>, 2014-06-26.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call from the project manager on a big, glossy, high-end coffee-table book I recently proofread &#8230; Project Manager: Oh. My. God! We can&#8217;t possibly implement all these changes! There&#8217;s just red EVERYwhere. Me: They&#8217;re not changes, they&#8217;re corrections. PM: But it&#8217;ll take days. Me: Yes, and because there are so many I suggest you get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,831,57,41],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-26520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-business","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6TK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26522,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26520\/revisions\/26522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}