September 24, 2009:

I began the day with breakfast at a local bakery (I just, alas, had tea) with my wonderful editor from Walker UK, and we ranted about the state of publishing in both Britain and America for a couple of hours, as well as talked about possible new projects together. As I walked back to my hosts' house–with two fresh baked loaves of bread for them–I thought about the possibilities of those new projects. So of course, as is my wont, I immediately sat down and emailed the editor a bunch of stuff, ...