I am writing this first part on the eve of New Year's Eve day - and as new remembrances come to me, I may well update it.
As the years go on, and this blog seems an interminable waste of time and fuss, and as my ego weakens its grip on me (ever too slowly to be sure) it seems less time is required to indulge my need for self-advertising.
However, I do like to briefly report in such posts on things done and experienced.
The highlight of the year is the time spent at Christmas with my family. No other part of the year is ever more meaningful, and I am always reminded how love shapes and supports my existence.
Professionally, managing to keep my small indie publishing press afloat in a bad time for retail and literary publishing, was a major success for me.
We published too many vital and important books to celebrate them all here, but two stood out for me, as being watersheds in our company's fortunes and esteem - The Monkman and Seagull Quiz Book - a good-selling end of year and pop…
As the years go on, and this blog seems an interminable waste of time and fuss, and as my ego weakens its grip on me (ever too slowly to be sure) it seems less time is required to indulge my need for self-advertising.
However, I do like to briefly report in such posts on things done and experienced.
The highlight of the year is the time spent at Christmas with my family. No other part of the year is ever more meaningful, and I am always reminded how love shapes and supports my existence.
Professionally, managing to keep my small indie publishing press afloat in a bad time for retail and literary publishing, was a major success for me.
We published too many vital and important books to celebrate them all here, but two stood out for me, as being watersheds in our company's fortunes and esteem - The Monkman and Seagull Quiz Book - a good-selling end of year and pop…