oh, by the way . . .
Oct. 7th, 2011 04:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
realthogDenying Science was published last Tuesday to fanfares of trumpets, wall-to-wall media appearances, telegrams of congratulations from the publisher, phonecalls from the Nobel Committee asking -- if memory serves me aright -- if I could be "pencilled in for next year", and much more besides.
Well, the book was published, anyway. The rest happened in an alternative universe, if it happened at all.
Another event that happened in an alternative universe was the release last Monday in a beta version of the new, massive, online edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, for which I've been writing some new artist entries and radically editing some old ones. Unfortunately there were teething problems getting the website technology to cope with some three million words of text, so the new beta launch date is now the 10th, this coming Monday.
(I haven't tackled nearly as many artist entries as I should have liked, because I've been busy on other things. The advantage of this beta launch is that I can add lots more in dribs and drabs over the coming weeks and months.)
And yet one more event: I've signed up with the Hal Leonard Corporation's Applause imprint to write an encyclopedia of film noir, probably to be called -- although no one's decided yet -- something like The A-Z of Film Noir or Film Noir A-Z. I'm kinda thrilled that a project I've been dreaming about and preparing for years is to be published by one of the world's leading entertainment book publishers.
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Date: 2011-10-08 05:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-09 12:20 am (UTC)Many thanks, dearest JM. I'm a bit worried that it might be more a case of interesting times, though.
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Date: 2011-10-08 10:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-09 12:20 am (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2011-10-08 03:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-09 12:20 am (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2011-10-08 04:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-09 12:21 am (UTC)Many thanks, K! I'm a bit worried it might be more a case of interesting times . . .
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Date: 2011-10-08 06:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-09 12:23 am (UTC)Now that's the kind of language an author likes to hear! Many thanks indeed. I do hope the book proves not to be too great a disappointment.
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Date: 2011-10-09 11:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-10 03:32 am (UTC)Well, he would say that about a present from his dad, wouldn't he?
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Date: 2011-10-10 09:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-10 09:47 pm (UTC)He's the one with the degree in physics.
Uh-oh.
*user bites fingernails down past second knuckle*
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Date: 2011-10-10 09:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-10 11:32 pm (UTC)Quite the contrary, my friend: your congrats are very much appreciated!