Huh.

relatively unimportant notes from a small press

Does anyone need this newsletter today? No, of course not. But I’ve been mainly at home since Sunday, self-quarantining, as I returned from a trip on March 3 with a cold and it seemed sensible (I am no longer sick): it helps to do some writing as a break from news and twitter!

Here are the Belt Publishing responses to COVID, as it were:

-On Monday morning I emailed the staff and told everyone to take the week off (paid). Seemed like an easy thing we could all do, since our schedules meant nothing urgent would be delayed (and the knowledge that many things beyond our control would be delayed anyway).

—On Tuesday I bumped publication of four titles back. One was due to publish June 2, and we moved it to June 30, with hopes we could have a party to launch it by then. I also delayed my book a month, to late July (sorry!), because I expect that soon there will be delays in parts of the book production and distribution chain that we need to build in. One book we were planning to publish be…