Folks, since you all were so helpful in the process of writing the book, help me decide the following issue.
Should I include a chapter on theater as one of the reviewers recommends (but doesn’t insist)? I have very little time to introduce all of the required changes. Should I make time for a whole new chapter?
How sure is the contract? Is it guaranteed or provisional? If it’s guaranteed, I would say forget it. If its provisional, you may want to consider it.
LikeLike
It’s a done deal. We are signing as soon as I provide the author information and the blurb.
LikeLike
If the contract is guaranteed, it means that they trust you accommodate the recommendations as you see fit. And adding a chapter at this stage is quite unusual. So I would say forget it. If you truly like the idea, consider writing an article about i?
LikeLike
As someone who studied theater, I would say yes but not if it is going to knock you for a loop…
LikeLike
At this point it’s probably too late to do a good job of the kind you want your name on (unless you were keeping up with theater on the subject the way you were with everything else).
Also, theater is also something that’s really about live performance and you simply didn’t have the possibility to see live performances of important works.
At this point I think it’s justifiable to regard it as a helpful hint that’s too late to implement and maybe to be included in a revised edition (if it ever comes to that) or just address theater briefly in another appropriate place explaining why it’s not covered in detail.
LikeLike
It could be less than two paragraphs. Your intro should establish boundary conditions — what the book includes and excludes. No reasonable book can cover every conceivably related topic, so something is always excluded. “I am not addressing theater in this book, simply because . . . .”
LikeLike
A conservative literary critic and college professor
Clarissa's Blog 
Leave a comment