faustus: (seventies)
( Apr. 12th, 2011 11:58 am)
Term and post term has been horrendously busy, and the book remains unfinished. Where are we?

The book:
Vietnam and homosexuality chapters still need surgery.
Epilogue needs completion.
New Wave chapter needs a sentence on Ballard, Children's stuff on Pete's Dragon
Bibliography!


Meanwhile I've given papers on Survivors (twice) and Bernard Herrmann (outside of comfort zone, much?) and need to work up proposals for respective proceedings volumes.

Need to do some prep to teach a film session. May just wing it at this rate.

Read and examined a PhD.

Meanwhile, there is much in the pipeline still"

"Postmodernism, Postmodernity and the Postmodern: Telling Local Stories at the End of Time" has appeared in Teaching Science Fiction, but no sign of a copy yet.

"Psychoanalysis and the Fantastic" is presumably in press somewhere.

"The Man Who Fell To Earth: The Messiah and the Amphicatastrophe" and "Unimportant Failures: The Fall and Rise of The Man Who Fell to Earth" had final versions.

"If None of this is Real, How Should We Treat Other People?" needs a final revision before publisher intervention for Philip K. Dick and Philosophy.

And I'm editing and writing things on sf adaptation for a project that never seems to die.

No idea why I feel overworked.
Spent part of this evening listing my research accomplishments for this last academic year - remind me why I am feeling drained and exhausted? When then integrating this into my CV, I ponder if I really have not had a refereed journal article since 2005, or what I have forgotten?

Cut for sheer bloody exhaustedness )
Barely has the ink dried upon the Companion - which is to be launched at Eaton (with a strong piece of elastic - it's heavy) - when we are given a schedule for Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction. ETA is July, in both hardback and paperback.

You can imagine the fun we had boiling all of sf (prose fiction, film, tv, theatre, comics, critical theory; reflecting diversity and history) down to 50 names, and the horse trading that's gone on. Then we saw a preview of the cover, with half a dozen or so names on it, and the horse trading begins anew. So, should we need to release Seven Keyer Figures in Science Fiction:

  • Octavia E. Butler
  • Robert A. Heinlein
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Stan Lee
  • George Lucas
  • Gene Roddenberry
  • H.G. Wells

And you can imagine the joy of people using parenthetical referencing with these two books - Bould et al 2009a and Bould et al 2009b.


It feels like I've been beavering away since I finished the Pratchett book, but with little more than reviews actually being published. With these and the Russ book there is a throughput again.

ETA: We've also had fun writing imaginary reviews listing the names we've wrongheadedly left out/included.
faustus: (streetname)
( Nov. 15th, 2008 03:09 pm)
On being poked, Pouches of Vital Importance have produced the sales figures for 2007, a mere 10 months and 15 days into the next sales period, and probably six months later than they promised in their contracts.

Shame they haven't told me about all of the books by me they publish, and including the one I suspect sold the most in the period.
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faustus: (heaven)
( Sep. 9th, 2008 11:53 am)
A rather depressing piece from G2. And it appears some agents don't accept unsolicited Mss these days. H'mmm.
I come back to find that Pocket Essentials cannot wait out the weekend to let me proofread the PDF of the new edition. I'm reasonably confident that it's not littered with mistakes, but there are always those which creep in after I've proofread the Ms. You know, mistakes added at the copyediting or conversion to PDF stages. Maybe even by the printer. I don't know. They aren't in the texts I've submitted. Or perhaps they've not got the joke I've done.

As I say, it should be ok. But. I'll lay odd the back cover is wrong.

Gee, thanks a fucking lot.
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