Progress | Table Of Gods

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I started writing Table of Gods in mid-2019. In November 2022 I launched this website and have posted about my monthly progress ever since.

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Praise from beta readers . In mid-December, I sent parts of the manuscript to over 300 beta readers. Reading through their feedback has...

Signed with a designer. Since 2020, I’ve worked with two designers. Both of whom I ended the partnership with. Not because they weren’t...

Book launch in The British Museum? In mid-October I went to the British Museum for two reasons. 1. I wanted to show my five-year-old...

Received the manuscript. Last week, my story editor sent back my manuscript with hundreds of suggestions. I was terrified at first but...

Design Hunt. I’ve been working on Table of Gods since 2019. Together with my family, scholars, photographers, food stylists, editors,...

I’m Done with the Manuscript. After writing almost daily for five years, I’ve now completed the manuscript. It’s a huge storytelling...

Scholars Reviewing My Work. From the left, Dr. Brad Hafford, Dr. Salvatore Gaspa, and Dr. Simo Parpola. Table of Gods is not an academic...

Pausing Social Media and YouTube. In early May, I began feeling stressed. Partly due to my self-imposed deadlines to complete the book in...

284 Recipe Testers From All Over the World. Just like many other things in this project, I had no experience with recipe testers. I...

Last Chance to Be a Recipe Tester. After five years of researching, cooking, and editing, the recipes in Table of Gods are done. To make...

Do you want to be a recipe tester? My goal is to have each recipe in Table of Gods tested by at least three people. With one recipe...

Photo shoot. Almost three years have passed since the first photo shoot. The same team gathered again (my parents, sister, a food...

65 recipes completed. We’ve now made 65 recipes for the book, which is twice as many as I initially planned for. A recipe editor will go...

Pricing – latest updates. Last month I mentioned that Table of Gods could cost up to 200 USD per copy. What’s driving the cost is the...

Self-edited six chapters. In October, I self-edited six chapters of Table of Gods. With all nine chapters now edited, I’m adding two...

Documentary about Ashurbanipal. Seven people contributed as voice actors (all quotes in the documentary are in Assyrian), and three...

Five New Recipes. We completed five new recipes this month: garlic beer, mackerel, tuna, siqqu (fish sauce), and kebabu (meat skewers)....

1500 people on the waiting list! You are now 1500 individuals waiting for Table of Gods. This means a lot to me! Writing a book is not...

I completed the manuscript. The most important news from June is that I’ve finally finished writing the book manuscript. After about 4.5...

Served beer on channel 4 (in Sweden). This was the second time I was invited to talk about my book on live TV in Sweden. This time I...