Well, the day started at 5.50 a.m. again, so I got the bedroom laptop out and starting marketing. there’s something rather conducive to Web marketing early in the morning. But before long I was ready for coffee and wanted to get moving on Tom Raworth’s new Salt title, a reissue of his prose. So up, shave and on my bike to Fulbourn.
Caught up with Jen on Skype and made sure everyone was fine up in Glasgow.
Caught up with Fiona Robyn, too. Who is being published by Emma Barnes at the wonderful Snowbooks. Fiona refers to me as Mr. Salt which is rather odd, like I’m a, er, pillar of said condiment. We talk about The Shining, which I watched on More4 last night drinking Orvieto, and was left staring into the dark while the empty house creaked. But no voices, thank god.
Finally, I sort out first proofs out of Tom Raworth’s collected prose (which took me the best part of a day to complete). Called “Earn your Milk” it’s a fantastic little book. Which reminds me to sort the contract, questionnaire and Web site out. Get ready, Tom, I need some information from you!
Dashed over to the Co-Op for an “All-Day Breakfast” sarnie and some Pringles and Coke. Munch through it all whilst checking the italics in Tom’s book. Arse has turned numb.
Next up, some ecological excoriation. John Wilkinson’s dark little masterpiece, “Down to Earth” goes to press. http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844714629.htm
Move on to Geraldine Monk’s final revises to “Ghost & Other”, get the text and cover out, but don’t quite manage to update the Web site. Must sort that tonight. http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844714933.htm
After that, I grab some more coffee and heat it up in the shiny microwave that I don’t yet understand. Tim Atkins beautiful “Folklore” goes to press and I’m left staring into space over the jacket. I upload his Web site and sort the databases out to finally list this book for Waterstone’s and Borders. http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844714193.htm
New (and extremely good) photos came in for Mark Waldron’s wonderful debut collection, “The Brand New Dark”. I chat to Mark about the book but he goes offline before I can confirm who has actually taken the shots. I upload one all the same http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844713448.htm
Managed to get Janet Fisher’s podcast uploaded, too. Check out “Brittle Bones” http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844714025.htm
It’s 17.48 and I think I’ll go grab a pizza from Sawo’s and come back to the office for a bit more work. Arse is now so numb I fear I shan’t be able to walk to the fast food place.
Tomorrow is definitely, definitely, Richard Burns day.
tags: weekend?working
