Welcome to newsletter number nine. It's going to be a short one today (at least in terms of this pre-and-post-section rambling. This week has vanished and with it, to some extent, my ability to function like a normal person. Sleep has evaded me often, I've been angry at inanimate objects, I made friends with the most beautiful dog who had spectacularly fluffy triangle ears, and I bought a lot of paper of a size large enough to make walking down the street difficult. We should begin before this gets out of hand (this was actually a far longer introduction than most previous newsletters).
THINGS THAT HAPPENED ON THE BLOG THIS WEEK:
In reverse chronological order: a quote (below), an old etching print and a brief meditation on time (I've clearly been reading too much Alain de Botton).
BOOK-RELATED NEWS:
I've just seen and sent back notes on the Spanish cover, which is absurdly exciting (I can be excited in a similar manner again when the German cover gets sent over, and then the South Korean one).
A nice collection of Lost in Translation covers is building up, to the left are the Italian, US, Japanese, UK and (as yet unpublished) French editions. Putting these in one place made me realise how ridiculous it is that I'm in this situation (it's enough to send one into shock).
A REQUEST:
I like to keep yapping on about the Animals in Knitwear, mostly because I feel they deserve to be loved but a little because I'm feeling bad about not having done another one yet. This last week I entered the 4 existing creatures into an Ohh Deer competition, which could potentially mean 'Animals in Knitwear' greeting cards, and all kinds of similarly exciting wares.
It would mean an awful lot to me if you'd vote for them, so I've included links below (you can vote for all of them, it let's you do this, naturally I've checked). The competition closes on June 6th, but I would imagine it will take some time before they announce things (but really how great would it be if an Animal in Knitwear was announced winner, their furry faces would just be swimming in a pool of delight).
VOTE JULIA
VOTE PATRICK
Thank you, by the way.
The end.
This is it, this is exhaustion. I've been supremely organised (relatively), because I'm actually writing this on Friday night before driving Northwards tomorrow to visit relatives, and the sea. I expect plenty will happen within a week, but in case it doesn't, I thought it would be fun if you replied with anything unusually odd/exciting/unfortunate that has happened to you recently (for me it was shutting my right leg in the car door with almighty force).
Farewell, see you next sometime.
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