Is it the end of July already?
As I did at the end of June, I'll give a brief update on things happening here...
1) The superhero-and-philosophy book I'm writing is going well. I'm in a better position than I was a month ago: I've experienced fewer down days, and as a result I'm well over two-thirds of the way toward my target word count. (I now imagine the book may be a bit longer than planned, a very strange position for me to be in.) I now expect to have it drafted by the time the fall semester starts, and then I'll do a bit of editing and revising early in the fall.
2) Doctor Strange and Philosophy is also proceeding nicely. Most chapters are finalized and looking great, and we're in the final editing stage, looking good to finish on time.
3) The Decline of the Individual: I approved the third set of page proofs last Monday, so barring any surprises, we're good to go. (The first set of proofs required around 1000 corrections, because I didn't have a chance to review copyedits; the second round, which served as proper proofs, needed only about seventy.) I've been told to expect publication "in the month of September." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The fall semester at CSI officially begins on Friday, August 25, although for me it effectively begins the following Monday, so I have four more weeks to go. As I wrap up the tasks above, I will turn to a book chapter I agreed to write (a return to Civil War from an interesting new angle) and my introduction and chapter for The Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Economics... and thinking about future plans.
I hope your summer ends well... see you on the other side!
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