This is the second part of my Setting Effective New Year’s Resolutions for Poker Success series. You can see Part 1 here.
Goal 2: Publish the Book
I have a solid draft and some very good feedback. Now it’s time to revise, figure out what I’m doing with regard to publishing, and get it out there. Easier said than done.
Send Sample Chapter to Publishers
I am leaning towards a small-release, self-published e-book, but I figure I should at least ask around with some publishers and see what they have to offer. This will require polishing a sample chapter and putting together some other material for them. I’d like to have this finished well before the end of February, but if I don’t, I’ll start cutting back on poker playing to get it done.
Make a Decision About Publishing
I don’t know how long it will take to hear back from and negotiate with publishers, which is why I want to get a sample out the door soon. Hopefully I’ll be in a position to make a decision one way or the other by the end of May and then start executing.
Revise 1 Chapter Per Month
I’ve gotten a lot of good feedback, and now I need to use it. The final form of the book will be dependent on how it gets published, but while I’m sorting out the publishing stuff, I want to take another cut at each major chapter in the book. Working on those one per month would see me finishing up in May, just as I’m hopefully making a final decision about publishing as well.
Revisit and Plan for Publishing and Distribution
The rest is too up in the air until I have publishing sorted out. Thus I’ll need to revisit and make some more concrete plans once I have that piece of information.
Nice goal. Book me a copy!
Wow, I’d love to read this! Are you sending to daily variance? Gl
Thanks! I haven’t decided who exactly I’m going to submit it to yet. That’s part of the resolution.
GL with your 2011 Resolutions.
Now I added another private resolution – Buy and read Foucault’s book this year.
You dont want to disappoint some polish boy with a dream, don’t you? 🙂
I certainly don’t- thanks for the motivation!
I’d also be interested in the book. If you ever just published a book of your trips and playing I’d buy that book to because those reports are money from work.
Thanks but all of that stuff is already available for free right here on this website!
So what will the book cover exactly Andrew?
Very broadly, it is about how to identify and exploit specific, common mistakes. The book is organized around a number of common “mistakes” (big stuff like “loose-passive play”, not small stuff like “lack of a river 3-bet bluffing range”). Each chapter contains a lot of strategies for exploiting that mistake as well advice on how to plug it in your own game.