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The book draft

In my last post, I celebrated that I had a full draft of my “Fearless Christian University” book. Over the past two weeks, I’ve been editing. First I read the whole thing out loud to check flow and coherence. Then I started making sure I’d connected the major themes throughout. The last few days, I’ve been reducing my word count to get under my 45,000 word target (not counting the bibliography). Today, I clocked in at about 44,786.

My submission deadline is February 1, so I have three weeks of cushion. So, if anybody has both interest and time, I’m willing to email the manuscript to get feedback before I submit and begin the formal editorial process with Eerdmans.

If you find yourself so inclined, drop me an email at jw.hawthorne@gmail.com and I’ll send it out. I need to hear back by January 21st.