Writing The Textbook

A textbook publisher from the West Coast called and asked if Judy would write a complete book on laboratory testing and its implications for nurses and nursing students. He suggested two experienced writers on nursing to collaborate on the nursing angle of the book. After a contract was signed, Judy quit her job at the hospital and for the next three or four years, spent all her free time on the job of putting together "the book." Of course most of the manual work of typing, sorting out papers and looking up references, etc. had to be done by Claire and they worked together far into the night.
Claire claims that she wore out three typewriters in producing that book and by the time it was finished she was having trouble with her hands. However, the book was successful. It even won an award from the Medical Writers Association as the best of the year. A nursing book club chose it to send to subscribers one month. It was published in paperback and Judy was considered an authority, and was even asked to talk at a seminar someplace in Chicago.