[This is my final backdated post… again, I’m writing this in 2021, but let me finish setting the stage…]
The Makers Mark project is progressing, but the whole world has been slowed down by the COVID19 pandemic, so it appears that our timeline might be delayed. In July, Clare from Herbert Press cold-calls me to ask whether I’d be interested in writing a book about stained glass. Wow. I have a quick conversation with my partner Robert, whose 25 year tutoring business has been destroyed by the pandemic quarantine restrictions, and he says “well, l’ve got a lot of free time, so I can help out with whatever you need.” As it happens, I had ALREADY written a full book proposal about a year earlier, but I hadn’t been able to find an interested publisher. So, I get back to Clare the same day, and say, check this out… here’s my book proposal. I think I shocked her with such a quick turn around time. She was hoping for a short timeline, and I thought to myself, the quicker the better, because at some point I’m going to need to get this Makers project constructed!
The book is a whole nuther story, but in short, I dive in and produce all the words and photos between autumn 2020 and our manuscript’s hard deadline, March 31, 2021. The timing actually works out pretty well… Makers will contact me in early 2021 and we agree to lock in final approval of my sketches in March, a week before the manuscript deadline. I’m able to leave it to Robert to do lots of proofreading and logistical tasks with the book, and I have the early months of 2021 to finalize my drawings for Makers.
[OK, that brings us up to speed, and further blog posts will be real-time.]
Attempting a photo shoot for the book.