[The above photo was taken on March 30, facing west out of one of the windows in the second-floor gymnasium of the West Michigan YWCA, at the beginning of tai chi class.]
This was the second week of a hellish two-week sprint at work which had me putting in hours like I have not done in years. But the work is in the bag for the moment, at least until the QA people get their hands on my code.
Reading
In anticipation of National Poetry Month, I have started The Selected Prose and Poems of Paul Celan, which I purchased from Books and Mortar back in the autumn of 2023.
Writing
A lot of journaling. Not a lot of creative writing, except for snippets which sneak into the journals.
Subject: Artificial Intelligence, Dragons
Setting: Ship
Genre: Romance
Listening
Interesting Links
- “Small Press Distribution Shuts Down” (Jim Milliot, Publishers Weekly) – I ordered many, many books from SPD back when I was the Special Orders Manager for Schuler Books, back in the 1990s before Amazon began to devour the world. And in the Caffeinated Press days we looked into distributing through them, but the press closed before we could build up a catalog large enough to need a distributor. The service they provided is sorely needed, and they will be sorely missed.
- “What the closure of Small Press Distribution means for readers.” (Drew Broussard, LitHub)
- The 2024 Hugo Award Finalists have just been announced. Article with all nominees here on File770.