A quick freakout, because that's really all I have time for.
It occurred to me, sometime in the wee hours of the morning when Tiny Boy was kicking me in the head, that even though the publisher has given me until February to submit the final manuscript for my book, it really needs to be done in the next few weeks so that the folks who have agreed to write blurbs.
So let's say for the sake of argument I get this Book #1 squeaky clean by December 15, which is like LESS THAN TWENTY WORK DAYS FROM NOW. Before then, I also need to finish the semester, which is to say reading drafts of student writing for the next couple weeks and final portfolios when they come in. Not to mention the 300 page dissertation that just landed on my desk. I also need to finish my syllabus for the new course I'm teaching next semester, and it's co-taught, which is twice the fun but about four times the complexity. And various admin tasks I won't bore you with here.
Then, re: Book #4, My co-editor and I had a self-imposed deadline of October 1, which was then Nov 1, and I think Dec 15 might be realistic, except the aforementioned. We have contributors! We need to make this happen! It needs to get in the mail!
Then the publisher would like the new version of Book #2 in the spring (now, spring is a vague deadline, but still, in my head that means maybe March 1, and maybe I should clarify that, which really means doing that work in January and February (after the previous deadlines) and when I am teaching one more course than I am now.
And I don't think I mentioned the acceptance of Book #3, which isn't a REAL book, because it's only a chapbook, but that still needs dealing with, and that too is supposed to be done in that vague space of the spring (haven't signed a contract yet so don't have an actual deadline).
I'm going to go take a walk and cool off. And get back to Books 1-4.
Ahhhh!
It occurred to me, sometime in the wee hours of the morning when Tiny Boy was kicking me in the head, that even though the publisher has given me until February to submit the final manuscript for my book, it really needs to be done in the next few weeks so that the folks who have agreed to write blurbs.
So let's say for the sake of argument I get this Book #1 squeaky clean by December 15, which is like LESS THAN TWENTY WORK DAYS FROM NOW. Before then, I also need to finish the semester, which is to say reading drafts of student writing for the next couple weeks and final portfolios when they come in. Not to mention the 300 page dissertation that just landed on my desk. I also need to finish my syllabus for the new course I'm teaching next semester, and it's co-taught, which is twice the fun but about four times the complexity. And various admin tasks I won't bore you with here.
Then, re: Book #4, My co-editor and I had a self-imposed deadline of October 1, which was then Nov 1, and I think Dec 15 might be realistic, except the aforementioned. We have contributors! We need to make this happen! It needs to get in the mail!
Then the publisher would like the new version of Book #2 in the spring (now, spring is a vague deadline, but still, in my head that means maybe March 1, and maybe I should clarify that, which really means doing that work in January and February (after the previous deadlines) and when I am teaching one more course than I am now.
And I don't think I mentioned the acceptance of Book #3, which isn't a REAL book, because it's only a chapbook, but that still needs dealing with, and that too is supposed to be done in that vague space of the spring (haven't signed a contract yet so don't have an actual deadline).
I'm going to go take a walk and cool off. And get back to Books 1-4.
Ahhhh!
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