Yesterday Andrea Schulz, my editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, e-mailed me three possible dust-jacket designs for Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong. “I am thrilled by these amazing designs, truly exuberant in a way I almost never am when sending this sort of thing,” she wrote. “I think they’re fabulous, in that way that good designers take you to places you don’t expect.” I agree–and I very much look forward to posting the finished product.
This morning I’ll be sending the copyedited manuscript back to Harcourt, complete with my final changes and next-to-last corrections. I still have to read the page proofs, but the hard editorial work is over: Pops is now officially finished. After that I’ll catch a cab to LaGuardia, followed in short order by a plane to Raleigh, North Carolina.
More as it happens….
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