In the on-deck circle.

We're busy at Bapton Books, commissioning MSS for a series of pocket biographies, Bapton's Brief Lives. (Pardner Gervase Wemyss is just about six hours my elder; another of our forthcoming authors is about two weeks' worth our junior. If you happen to be an author who turns 50 in July of 2012, drop us a line: it seems to have been a vintage month.)

Moreover, for Christmas, we are looking to have a history of 1937, that year of portent, out and selling. Floods, the Hindenburg, the New London School Disaster, wars and rumors of war, the squalid sequelae of the Duke of Windsor's abdication.... Makes 2012 look better than you might think, really.

So, neighbors: what are y'all thinking?