Making Progress
22 February 2011

Greetings:

My update now is brief. My father died on Nov. 23, 2010. I was only able to work on the Little, Big Project during two of the eight weeks following his death. But I am happy to report that since mid-January I have been working steadily on the book and I do not expect any significant interruptions before the book is finished.

Last Thursday I finished collating the final text corrections and queries for the book; after whittling the final queries down over the last few days, minutes ago I sent the list to John Crowley for his feedback. Once that is received I will integrate his approved changes with the remaining text and art corrections and John D. Berry and I will begin the final correction / lockdown pass through the book — which will take a few weeks — and once done we will finish the back matter, create the dustjacket and other outer matter, and do final prep for the printer.

I am very happy to thank Carolyn S. Foreman for her excellent work proofreading the book for the final time before publication — she caught a number of things that I, along with John Crowley and two previous proofreaders, missed, and we are very grateful to her for her work.

For more information on the process, please see the last three Project updates:

• Our Agon with Zeno: Update 8/30/10
• The Home Stretch: Update 10/5/10
• The Home Stretches: Update 12/01/10

Thank you for your patience; we are very close.

With Best Wishes for the New Year,

Ron Drummond
Publisher

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What a pickle: An update on the signed editions: Update 4/1/24
Is it far?: Update 4/4/23
Ahead and behind: 1/21/23
Circumstances / Quite close: 12/6/22
She's here, she's near: 10/5/22
the virtual end: 9/22/22
waiting for the promised structure: 7/5/22
He thought wildly of printing them all on lantern slides: 5/4/22
Midnight in Montreal: 9/15/21
new old letters and signs: 8/16/21
a narrow curl of steep stairs: 2/14/21
Her looking upward was infectious: 4/22/20
as natural and unaccountable as bloom and branch: 11/16/19
some vote or say: 6/12/19
Just about over / Not all over: 9/15/18
Project Update: 1/03/18
so good to have it all at last, start to finish: Update 9/21/17
as they stand waiting to be called forth: Update 1/4/17
a streak of presence surrounded by a dim glow of absence: Update 8/29/16
As though she continued to wake: Update 12/21/15
Fifty-two pickup: Update 8/10/15
What has and what must yet: Update 2/22/15
Undisentanglable convolvulus: Update 10/23/14
For information still to come: Update 6/12/14
At the prospect of having this book: Update 2/2/14
In the way they fade without disappearing: Update 9/15/13
What he would always have chosen to do: Update 4/23/13
What place it was she was to go to: Update 1/1/13
The Ivory Buckle of the Winter Solstice: Update 8/15/12
Another Milestone Is Reached — Update 4/6/12
The Blackstone Little, Big — Update 1/2/12
Update 11/23/11
Suppose One Were a Wish: 12 October 2011
Update: 15 September 2011
The Remaining Tasks: 3 August 2011
The Final Lockdown Pass Continues Apace: 30 June 2011
Final Lockdown Pass Still in Progress: 31 May 2011
Final Lockdown Pass in Progress: 23 April 2011
Making Progress: 23 February 2011
The Home Stretches: 1 December 2010
The Home Stretch, 5 October 2010
Summary of Progress on Little, Big through September 2010