{"id":205,"date":"2013-04-23T08:37:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T08:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/04\/23\/how-the-textbooks-get-made-or-the-writers-life-for-me\/"},"modified":"2013-04-23T08:37:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T08:37:58","slug":"how-the-textbooks-get-made-or-the-writers-life-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/04\/how-the-textbooks-get-made-or-the-writers-life-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Textbooks Get Made (or “The Writer’s Life for Me”)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I continue to write a monthly column for the Ann Arbor Chronicle<\/i>. In the latest I take a break from talking about guns and “gun control,” and instead talking about my actual work-life as a freelance writer\/editor:
\nThe Ann Arbor Chronicle | In it for the Money: Not Safe for Work<\/a><\/p>\n

\nIllustrative example: I recently put together a classroom reference on Internet pornography (not kidding). The book consists of a couple dozen point-counterpoint pairs on topics like \u201cAccess to online porn does\/doesn\u2019t encourage rape\u201d or \u201cTeen\/preteen sexting should\/shouldn\u2019t be prosecuted as child pornography\u201d \u2013 fun stuff like that.
\nI hunt down these articles, then revise and massage them so that they\u2019re high-school accessible, because that\u2019s the market for this book \u2013 high school libraries. That\u2019s my job:
\nI write reference works on pornography aimed at high schoolers.<\/B>
\nI\u2019ve also done books like this on drugs and teen sex. I don\u2019t even know what to say about my life, except that if you had told 12-year-old me that this was how it was going to end up, that kid would high-five you all over the place.
\nThe only time a lay person hears about what goes into a textbook is when some jerkwater school board in North Carolina mandates that they aren\u2019t buying anything with this untested evolution crap in it, or whatever.
\nI\u2019ve done this about a dozen times (not counting projects I ultimately passed on because the money or timing were wrong). And I gotta tell you, the editorial guidelines have never remotely approached that kind of political micromanagement. More than politics, \u201cexpedience\u201d and \u201cbalance\u201d are the rule.
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I continue to write a monthly column for the Ann Arbor Chronicle. In the latest I take a break from talking about guns and “gun control,” and instead talking about my actual work-life as a freelance writer\/editor: The Ann Arbor Chronicle | In it for the Money: Not Safe for Work Illustrative example: I recently … Continue reading “How the Textbooks Get Made (or “The Writer’s Life for Me”)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}