Got revised and trimmed draft of chapter for edited volume off to editors, who sound appreciative (even if I failed to quite grasp all the minutiae of the somewhat arcane bibliographic conventions in play, sigh).
Purportedly have a couple of web articles forthcoming shortly.
Feeling as if I don't have much on hand at present: there's the book for ( Read more... )

You know I said I had nil publications last year?
Well, I went to the website of the society in whose journal an article by moi was, I thought, at the very least forthcoming, and find that the relevant issue appears to have been published.
I was not informed and have not (yet) received author's copies.
We feel this is Not Good Enough, srsly.
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No, really, if you return to me a copy-edited article for my attention, and mention that you have made changes to the text (as well as changing the title to one that I think is misleading), please to be sending it to me with your changes tracked and marked up.
For if you are going to insult my ability to write English prose, I think I should be ( Read more... )

Except some of it doesn't seem to be, o hai, I am now making an effort, it is more that various academic things (seminars, conferences, etc) that I had flagged up in my diary ages ago finally came up and were all within the space of a few weeks, I don't know, it's the 'like buses' phenomenon. And some of them I did do some social interaction at and ( Read more... )

Well, not literally.
But I have finally managed to have a discussion with the editor at the Very Estimable and Well-Reputed Academic Press whom I had hoped to get together with during the Massive Triennial Conference the other week, which did not happen for, reasons.
And they are very keen about a book I have been thinking about for ages, which is ( Read more... )

So, it was the bus back to O'Hare, where I don't think the driver gave me the most accurate advice on which terminal I should debark at for the Bus/Shuttle Center, but I got there, and didn't even have to wait an undue while until the relevant shuttle turned up.
Once at the hotel I was about the business of checking in and booking the shuttle at ( Read more... )

An email from the editors of a volume in which you have a chapter saying that the external reviewers for the publisher think it's all good and doesn't need more work.
Yay.
Slightly less yay, being asked to step up for a History in the Pub talk with a month's notice.
On the subject of the review I am writing, am currently at the 'walking up and down ( Read more... )

I think I may have perorated (the term may more properly be whinged at length) before about a chapter I got beguiled into writing for a Big Book on A Topic. This has been running for several years. The length constraints were extremely tight, the editors do that thing of saying they want one thing and then asking for another thing, which within ( Read more... )

I may have indicated to my dr rdrz over the years that there is one topic on which I have more or less for adventitious reasons fallen into being consider A Nexpert and asked to talk about, and I will concede that I know about the topic and have opinions about it based on my hystorikle knowingz and nonetheless I really rather not be doing this. ( ( Read more... )

Just possibly I am facing this with a slightly greater equanimity than might be the case, but on the other hand, possibly not.
Work is fairly frantic with various rather pressing things having turned up during my absence.
On top of which, I am supposed to be giving a commentary at a workshop on Friday on a draft book chapter which at present only ( Read more... )