Sunday, January 23, 2011

First one down ...

Some good news for the trivia book project today.

Not only did I finish the first of the three books, on the Dallas Cowboys (thus, the celebration picture, er, cartoon), but the other two editions will be playing for the Super Bowl.

The Packers vs. the Steelers. Looks like that won't hurt sales at all. Nice.

FYI, the final question for the Cowboys book was: "When Dallas finally hosted its first Super Bowl, XLV, which two postseason rivals of the Cowboys played at Cowboys Stadium?"

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

The first deadline is already looming ...

The first deadline is at the end of the month and I'm now settling into, "Oh my, what have I gotten myself into?" mode. The book is actually coming together nicely, but there's just so much and I haven't been able to spend near the time I'd like on it.

Yes, I got through the Capital One Bowl fine, but that was a lot of work combined with driving on both Christmas and New Year's Day, and every day since there have been breaking stories. Day off? Forget it.

So I've broken it down into week-long segments:

This week: Finish up the biggest section of the book.
Next week: Finish up the other sections.
Jan 16-22. Put it all together, write the introductions and edit the whole thing.

That'll give me one extra week to play with heading into the two other editions (February and March), but that's down from an extra month. That's when you start getting concerned because if something goes wrong ...

... but you can't think like that. Back at it in the morning.