The patient Experience

 This is my very latest book, and you can find all about it by reading the blurb. You can buy it from Amazon  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Patient-Experience-How-Manage-Being/dp/1916965326/ref=sr_1_1?crid=8GBJIX6QPIW7&keywords=the+patient+experience+isobel+knight&qid=1700149714&sprefix=%2Caps%2C104&sr=8-1

My latest book

For me, producing a book might be analogous to pregnancy and birth, neither of which I have experienced. The 'pregnancy' of the book is the research and writing process, and this often takes much longer than a typical human nine-month pregnancy.  Nevertheless, you are growing and developing something that you want to bring live into the world. It is always a piece of myself - but the process is an immersive one and there is nothing I like more than to be digging through papers or other books to recreate into my work. It can be a painful process. Writing that is personal can be deeply raw and other times, the writing that is more general just grows as the word numbers tot up all the time. Some days the words flow akin to a trail from an old-fashioned ink pen. Other times it can take a whole afternoon to produce one paragraph. 

The process of giving birth to the book begins with handing over the manuscript to the editorial team. It is a real challenge. I am physically cutting the umbilical cord and delivering the fruits of my labour to strangers and they might pick it apart at will, or come back with corrections. Sometimes they are minor - checking on phrasing, or double-checking a reference. Others might be more irksome. 

Even when the baby is born and being checked, cross-checked and checked again, sometimes pieces need re-writes and additions. The baby starts to grow. Other features develop. A really exciting moment is the development of the cover and pre-marketing. Editorial is almost complete, and the placenta is delivered. The manuscript has become a fully developed book and then it is printed. The moment that book is in your hands for the first time must be similar to the wonderment of a new baby for new parents. I am always just slightly proud of what I have produced. 

 

                                             My last 'baby' - 'The Body Nobody Believed' (2022)

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