An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar is Shipping!

First you develop the idea. Then you write up the proposal including a sample of perhaps thirty or forty pages of text. Next, you spend weeks or months shopping that proposal until you land a contract.

At that point, you batten down the hatches and begin the long and intensive process of writing, all under the brooding glare of the contract deadline.

Finally, at long last, you finish the manuscript and you send it off. Then comes the copy editing, incessant scanning text and footnotes for errors of grammar, spelling, and fact. Several afternoons are spent carefully compiling an index and bibliography. You send everything off, relieved.

Except that now you need to work with the publisher to write and vet advertising copy and press sheets and draw up lists of contacts for possible endorsements and review copies.

All this labor is carried out with a new deadline, that fabled day on which the book is available to the world.

And now, at long last, that day has arrived. An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar is now shipping.

Farewell, thou child of my right hand and joy.

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