next step: the movie-review book project

I had two book projects slated for this year, and I've already done one of them, mainly because the book was so tiny. My second book project (it was originally the first) is my movie-review compilation, a huge monster of a book that's going to run over 1,000 pages (ms is written and compiled). A Korean friend advised me to break the book up into smaller volumes, but that's a typically Korean tactic for the impatient, short-attention-span crowd: I recall seeing, at a bookstore, James Clavell's Shogun (1,152 paperback pages) in Korean, published as a two-parter. There must be some psychological reason behind the Korean need for shorter media; Americans don't seem to have a problem toting hefty, thousand-page Stephen King novels around with them (although, these days, almost everything's an e-book), but Koreans seem to think a big book goes down easier when you divide it into smaller chunks (as if a book weren't already divided into chapters).*

Anyway, with the calendar I'd planned out at the beginning of this year, I'm actually still on schedule to get the movie-review book out by July, although I now feel more relaxed about the schedule because I got the homeschooling book done first. So while I'll keep July as my official deadline for publishing the movie-review book, I won't cry any tears if the timeline for the book stretches out to nearly December. I'm in no hurry, and it's good to have the experience of self-publishing on Amazon under my belt now.

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*I see a similar problem as a textbook-content creator at my job. My boss told me, once, that a book I had mostly written, GraVoca (I didn't choose that title, FYI, but I did write about 70-80% of every chapter), was apparently daunting to the Korean ladies having to teach it because there was "too much English" in it. The problem, as you might imagine, is that these ladies, despite being English teachers, are not very competent in English, so when they see an English-only textbook, they immediately shut down mentally at the sight of all that text. Were these ladies English-fluent, this wouldn't be an issue, but Korean schools routinely hire underqualified people to teach English. To be fair, one reason why I merely skim most Korean-language texts and websites is that I have the same problem in reverse: not being fluent in Korean, I often feel the lazy urge merely to scan Korean text for whatever I'm looking for instead of bothering to read the whole thing. But no one is ever going to put me in a position where I have to teach advanced Korean to a bunch of foreigners.