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Adam, thank you for sharing such an experience; it is way more stressful than writing research papers. I think authors need to be appreciated more. I remember my epi Prof told me that he only received so little from the publishers (and his epi textbook was a standard text internationaly at that time).

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Seems highly relatable to my first book experience.

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Thank you Adam for an honest summary of the trials and tribulations of crafting a book - it was also reassuring, as I thought it was just me (blaming my book-writing inexperience and lack of dedicated application for how long and how much mental energy it took!)

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Nothing but respect for someone who, having been through the process once and somehow survived, decides not to take the lesson "never again"!

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I feel it’s a bit like deciding to have a second child: “surely it wasn’t that bad really, and we do have all the stuff now…”

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