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Latest update: well, so much for the Bowne job. They got rid of most of the workforce there a few weeks ago, including me. So, at the moment I’m trying to figure out what to do nex, whther to try to get back into freelance proofreading, editing & typesetting, or hunt for another fulltime job. I’m not entirely unhappy with this turn of events as the place was becoming an increasingly bizarre and unproductive work environment, but still the routine & the paycheques were nice…
But, the main thing is that my latest project has emerged: cris cheek’s part: short life housing. This has been a really long time coming, due to a variety of circumstances (at one point there was an entirely different incarnation of the book which I decided I simply couldn’t do without impossible expense)… nonetheless the next book is possibly the most physically beautiful book I’ve seen into print (it’s largish, with heavy paperstock & thick card covers, with one of the fancier interior designs I’ve created). & it’s a great pleasure to get a big chunk of cris’s work out into the world, since so much of his work has only appeared in small private editions or fragmentary showings in magazines. Next post will be the formal announcement…
Anne’s been really insanely busy, far more than is probably good for an 11-yr-old: she’s performing in R Murray Schafer’s new opera The Children’s Crusade. 3-hour practices virtually every day…! The good thing is that she finds it an exciting project to be involved in (it has very, uh, interactive staging… this means that the audience gets herded around rather than sitting put). It’s the opening night of the Luminato festival, so the pressure’s on…