It is now a mere ten days until the books are finally launched. I have written a brief introduction, and sent it off for the consideration of a journal I have faith in; but more than anything, I have been scrolling through the PDFs, looking for errors to correct, correcting them in the LaTeX sources, recompiling the PDF, and uploading it to Amazon. Sometimes more than once a day. All this activity will cease in a few days, however, as Amazon needs some quiet time to ready the book for printing on release day.
What will happen then, I am not sure. Will the books sell more than the copies I will buy for myself and the national repository library? I can’t tell. I do know that if the world were a fair one, there would be trumpets and a feast – a huge release party – for really, the publication of the first complete English edition of this national collection of folktales and legends, 180 years after the originals first began to appear, is a big deal, regardless of my involvement. But I don’t suppose 1. September will be any more remarkable for me than any other Sunday.