I LIVE!

01/04/2010 by andy.

… I think.

So! More than a year of work comes to a close - the second book is finished. It’s been retitled - it’s now How to Grow Food in your Polytunnel, which is hardly going to tempt the Booker, methinks (although at least it won’t attract the attention of the bods who give out the Diagram Prize). I don’t mind, really - I think the title and cover of non-fiction books are really the territory of publishers and marketing folks, and just try not to get in their way much. They know their job, I’m sure.

I’m a bit shell-shocked tonight, since the actual writing of the book has taken two months, including two weeks of round-the-clock slog at the end, which seems to be an inevitable consequence of collaboration. Or maybe it’s just me being pants, who knows?

I took Witchypoo and the Sons out for dinner last night to celebrate the End Of The Book, and then had to come back and work to midnight to actually finish it (the 31st was the deadline and we got it in 20 minutes before midnight) - but I have a bit more time for other things now. I’ll get a book review up in the next few days which I’ve been feeling guilty about for a while, and then I’m going to do some things that I’ve not had much time for lately like playing with children, watching TV and sleeping.

Oh, and working in the polytunnel. Even that’s been neglected…

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