ms update

I think I'm done updating the manuscript for the dead-tree version of my movie-review book. Today will therefore be devoted to mocking up the new cover for the book (I need a back cover and a spine, whose width varies according to the number of printed pages: 474 in my case). With that done, I have a few other things that need doing over the next few days: I need to populate my blog with scheduled posts through September—I'm anticipating teaching somewhere this fall, and I'll need time to acclimate to wherever I'm at; if it's a place with semesters, I can't prep for classes and maintain both the blog and Substack at the same time, so getting this blog/Substack work done now will "stagger" the workload and distribute it over the calendar a little more equitably. And as mentioned, I also need to generate a bunch of scheduled posts for Substack, where I now produce several varieties of work: Bad Online English, Grammar Growl (grammar curriculum), creative works, and games/puzzles. I might try to cut down on my workload by reducing the creative-works output to just once a week instead of twice a week. And while my creative stuff will remain mostly behind a paywall, I'll try the temptation strategy of showing the first part of that content to my free subscribers. Maybe that'll motivate them to pay for the rest; maybe it won't. Hmmm... I wonder if I should do that for future grammar lessons, too. Righto—must get crackin'.