Progress Report June ’21
That time again already? Honestly, it’s been a slow couple of months. Lot of tedious administrative stuff to do, and I’ve been grinding away in a rather unsatisfactory manner on the new book, but I’m trying not to worry too much about it and let it take as long as it takes. If there’s one lesson I’ve learned it’s that you won’t always feel happy with a first draft, but there’s nothing that can’t be fixed, revised, or for that matter cut or replaced when you’ve finished your first pass and you can see the shape of the whole thing in front of you. So try not to hyperventilate when a given day’s work doesn’t rock the world…
US and UK covers are out there in the world now. I’ve been signing a bunch of signature sheets for the US and I’ll probably be heading to the distributor in Oxford to sign a couple of thousand for the UK. Hard to believe that The Wisdom of Crowds is going to be getting out into the bookshops in less than 3 months. Seems only yesterday A Little Hatred was meeting the readers. I was looking forward to heading up to London in the middle of July for a first meeting in a year or two with the publisher, but sadly it’s been commuted to Zoom. Still hoping to be doing in person events in September, but the way things are with the pandemic at the moment nothing can be certain…
