Saddam Hussein blog post; and the book

This week I had to neglect the blog and instead concentrate on urgent work for my book. I was sent the second proofs and had a week to go through them to check all new photos, approve them or make alternative suggestions, and also go over all the captions for them. So it was a pretty intense week and I finished this task only today. I have to send it back to the publishers by tomorrow. So it was close but I met the deadline.

The blog has not been neglected completely, however, earlier today I at last managed to put a new post up. It comes with the same photo as the one featured above (of an exhibit at the Imperial War Museum in London) and is about Iraq’s former dictator Saddam Hussein. The comparatively short post re-used some text from my archives of posts of the DT page I used to curate on Facebook, but it also featured newly written passages. That was all I had time for this week with regard to the blog.

This coming week I will have to rewrite the introduction for the book, which will be a less intense task amount-wise than I had this week but it will by no means be easier. I hope to be able to do another blog post too and will also start composing a special one for Christmas.

That’s basically all I have to say here, so it’s a shorter newsletter this time – but I think that last Sunday’s newsletter was actually too long, and also featured far too many links. I’ll try to make future newsletters less cluttered with links and also less wordy. It depends a lot on what’s happened in the preceding week, but I won’t overload newsletters with details of blog posts in future. These will be linked, and readers interested in them can go and look for themselves. Summaries in the newsletter should be much briefer than last time. I hope you agree.

Have a decent week – for some it will be the last working week before the Christmas break. And then we are heading for a Christmas that for many people will be very different from all the Christmases in the past.

Best wishes

Peter