Yeah, OK, I Did It Again

I really have a hard time tooting my own horn, but since one of the three words in the title of this blog is "write," I almost feel obligated to share my latest accomplishment. Drumroll, please. (Oh, come on. In your head, you can do it. Humor me.) My third book, The MLA Pocket Handbook, is finished and available at Amazon. All I can say is "whew." It's been a long road.

Such a work should be easy. In theory at least. Unfortuately, creating a comprehensive, readable, intuitive handbook on MLA documentation the size of your pocket is harder than it sounds. So many decisions, so many examples. Anyway, I'll quit whining and celebrate. I'm happy with it--I wish I had had it when I was in school.

The book has actually been finished for almost a month, and for a while Amazon was selling them at a pretty good clip. But as I'm learning, Amazon is such a mamoth company that sometimes the right arm bites off the left one and has to grow it back before it can start selling your books again. That has already happened to me with this book. Amazon says "out of stock" when we know they are in their warehouse. Can you imagine the size of that warehouse?

I'm sure it will sort itself out. In the meantime, take a look here.