The Northern Hemisphere has now officially had the astronomical beginning of spring, although I'm not sure the weather has received a notification of this fact yet. That is really all I have to say, right now, at the beginning (which is maybe just as well, as this newsletter contains more words than past others).
WORK-RELATED NEWS:
We are nearly, nearly done with the manuscript for the next book. The final tiny changes are being made before it goes off to the copyeditor, who is able to read the whole thing with new eyes, and can hopefully tell us where any gaping holes are (although as it's about the universe, both the gaping and the holes are inevitable to some extent). In all seriousness (because what else is there), I'm hopeful the manuscript will be given a pat on the head, and then I can spend all of my waking hours with the illustrations (see in-progress one below).
The last two days have been spent in London, seeing long-lost people, having meetings, marvelling at how good the city is at not-stopping-to-take-breath. I will most likely be working longer-term with the Goethe Institut, who do truly incredible things not only for the German language, but for everyone in general—their commitment to promoting the arts and culture and the quite-important-to-know side of politics, and not only within the context of Europe, is astounding (and they have a delightful library in their building).
IN CASE YOU DIDN’T ALREADY KNOW:
All of the illustrations from my first two books, Lost in Translation and The Illustrated Book of Sayings, are available as prints. If you were needing untranslatable words on your wall, now you know where to find them.
A DEFINITELY-NOT-EVERY-WEEK THING:
Last Sunday, I spoke to Amr Kotb, who hosts a small and entirely perfect podcast called Sunday Blues, and who has a truly delightful podcast voice. We spoke all-too-briefly about the abstract nature of emotions, the undefinable and the ambiguous, and what it looks like when we find answers to questions we didn't even know to ask. Unless I'm very wrong, this episode will go up tomorrow, on Sunday, and you can listen via iTunes, or wherever podcasts are found (I would imagine).
THIS WEEK I FELL IN LOVE WITH:
Dham Srifuengfung's portraits of his childhood nanny. (Forget about my new author photo, I must locate this man and ask him to capture me with large leaves over my head.)
The end.
At the end of last week's newsletter, I mentioned the requesting of your assistance in deciding something, but actually this felt long enough already, so I'll keep hold of that thought for now.
P.s. If you do wind up listening to the podcast, let me or Amr know what your thoughts were—I'd love to know, and I'm pretty certain he would too.
Farewell, see you next sometime.
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