Today is pub day for my biography of Dorothy L. Sayers, and for this week only I'm going to emerge from my social-media Faraday cage and answer questions about her and about the experience of writing this book. I won't be here all the time — I have teaching to do — but I will check in whenever I can. Sayers is a fascinating person and I had a great time writing about her, so it's kind of nice to have her back in my mind again. That's one of the funny things about writing books: it occupies you so completely until you sign off on the final galley, after which you move on to other things — and then when the book is published, you think O right, I wrote this. How did that go again?
Anyway, here I am.
UPDATE: Let's postpone Sayers Week. I have learned, to my distress, that though this is official publication day the paper book is not available anywhere. I have also learned that the Kindle edition appears in gray type that cannot be darkened — I have confirmed this; it's readable to me, though not ideally so, but might be more difficult for others — and I have been told that the Kindle edition also has many typos. I have not yet been able to confirm that, and things will be too busy for the next couple of days for me to do so. I have written to OUP and hope to figure out what's happening ASAP, but in the meantime I would not, if I were you, buy a digital edition unless you are confident that you can return it.
And that OUP did not see fit to tell me that the codex edition would be unavailable on the publication date makes me extremely unhappy. (Though I guess that explains why I have not received any author's copies.)