Well, dear readers, I am taking a break from a marathon proofing session to write these here notes. Yes, the galley arrived late, just after I posted the notes on Monday evening. That was fast. The galley looks great overall, but as always, there are some fixes to be done, things we didn’t catch because there are always things you don’t catch – it’s the nature of the beast and it’s beastly by nature. I only got about four hours of sleep, got up, answered e-mails, and began proofing. Then I got ready and moseyed on over to the Coral Café for a meeting with actor Barry Gordon – we’ll be doing a little two-night FUNdraiser for Group Rep with Barry and Barry (Pearl) doing a classic comedy staged reading, which, if you put on your thinking caps, you can probably figure out the play. That lasted about an hour and forty-five minutes and was really fun. Then I came right home, proofed some more, dozed off for a couple of hours, had a long telephonic conversation, proofed some more, had another sandwich for a snack (the main meal was a chicken salad sandwich), and then continued proofing until it was time to write these here notes. That was pretty much it for the day and evening, and my plan is to finish proofing after posting these here notes, which I shall therefore keep short and sweet, not necessarily in that order.
Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, I should be able to get the designer the fixes, then they’ll do another pass and that’s usually the one that’s final. Then I’ll attend to other book matters – flap copy for the dust jacket, getting one more blurber, I’ll eat, and then at some point I’ll watch, listen, and relax.
The rest of the week is more of the same and I’m told that to get the emoticons back we may have to have the board go off-line again for an hour or two – waiting to hear on that. Not sure what’s happening on the weekend but whatever it is, I’m against it. What am I, Groucho Marx all of a sudden?
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, I’ll be up when I’m up, I’ll get the designer the fixes, I’ll figure out flap copy for the dust jacket, still on the hunt for a second blurber, eat, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Ask BK day, the day in which you get to ask me or any dear reader any old question you like and we get to give any old answer we like. So, let’s have loads of lovely questions and loads of lovely answers, and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to almost be done with the final phase of the galley.