If you could claim authorship of one book, which would it be?
Post your answer in the LEAVE A COMMENT section below. I’m not the boss of you, though. Don’t write anything for all I care! Why just claim authorship, when you can actually be the author!?
. . .here are my thoughts.
If you could claim authorship of one book, which would it be?
There aren’t many authors who publish just one book. If I can’t claim authorship of Don Quixote—and the profits of its 500 million copies—then any decently selling book would suffice. I read Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution, by Carlo Rovelli. Based on the title, I thought it’d be about quantum mechanics. Not so! Carlo had been threatening to be penned into my “Must Read Authors List.” His name’s in pencil right now. My only takeaway from his book is how crucial it is to get that initial book published. If the first one sells decently, a second book is comparably simple to get published. Presumably you’ve improved as a writer, and you’ve garnered a greater number of readers than you’ve alienated. After a few successes, you can get just about anything you write published on name recognition alone. This allows an author the luxury of a real stinker without completely torpedoing their career—a freebie, as it were. This was Rovelli’s freebie. A real stinker! His leash is now tighter than a dog-training choke chain. I’ll scrutinize his next book at the quantum level.