5 Author Updates (9)

This is the ninth in an occasional series of updates about our nearly 200 Significant Objects authors. We're publishing these while we work on various Significant Objects-related projects about which you'll hear more soon. In the meantime, read SO v1 stories | SO v2 stories | SO v3 stories, and follow our Twitter stream. PS: Next month, we're only going to post three Author Updates at a time; doing five is too difficult.

1) Matt Sumell says he is "busy with the difficult and solitary work of f...