It’s been a while since I posted an update on the status of the book-in-production. Things are moving along– the second (and hopefully final) pass proofs are in the mail now, and assuming those are ok, that’s about it for the text. Then it’s just a matter of waiting.
I asked a friend at work who does photography on the side to take some pictures for possible use as an author photo, and he came through with some great shots of me and Emmy talking about physics:
(The books were chosen to be amusing to the half-dozen people who will recognize them.)
As you can see, Emmy is pretty photogenic.
We also have the first blurb in response to the galley proofs that were sent out a few weeks ago:
Quantum physics is perhaps the most interesting and slipperiest
scientific subject; who knew that Socratic discussion with an adorable
dog was the key to unravelling it?— Cory Doctorow, co-editor of Boing Boing and author of “Little Brother”
This is great to see, because it dispels my totally irrational fear that we wouldn’t get any useful comments out of the whole process. I’ll still fret a little, but at least I know there’ll be one good quote to go on the cover.