Would love to see Last Last Orders come out; I think about it frequently. Donal McLaughlin's disappearance was pretty impressive. John was pissed that both Alp and Behind the Station have the exact same cover art; I'm honestly not sure how that got by him and approved in the first place. Things were so chaotic at that time. Sauermugg was on the production list but not on the schedule because either we didn't have a translator for it or the translator (Kinsella?) wanted to do the other books first, at which point either we lost track of the Sæterbakkens or perhaps some funding had appeared elsewhere that made other books more important. Contracts were also an issue (finding them, I mean: multiple stacks of unsorted pages arrived from London and I was meant to sort through them). I worked on Invisible Hands and Don't Leave Me. I cannot stress enough how deeply disorganized the press was between 2014-2016 (surely beyond and before then too, but those were my years). After Jeremy and Mikhail left (well...) we were just three people: me, Jake, John, still doing 5-6 books a month, until Nate Davis's brief tenure as editor, which wasn't long. There was an occasional intern, flown in from Europe to bask in the literary cornfields of McLean, Illinois. I became the entire production department. 5-6 books a month plus galleys. Thus the errors!
Would love to see Last Last Orders come out; I think about it frequently. Donal McLaughlin's disappearance was pretty impressive. John was pissed that both Alp and Behind the Station have the exact same cover art; I'm honestly not sure how that got by him and approved in the first place. Things were so chaotic at that time. Sauermugg was on the production list but not on the schedule because either we didn't have a translator for it or the translator (Kinsella?) wanted to do the other books first, at which point either we lost track of the Sæterbakkens or perhaps some funding had appeared elsewhere that made other books more important. Contracts were also an issue (finding them, I mean: multiple stacks of unsorted pages arrived from London and I was meant to sort through them). I worked on Invisible Hands and Don't Leave Me. I cannot stress enough how deeply disorganized the press was between 2014-2016 (surely beyond and before then too, but those were my years). After Jeremy and Mikhail left (well...) we were just three people: me, Jake, John, still doing 5-6 books a month, until Nate Davis's brief tenure as editor, which wasn't long. There was an occasional intern, flown in from Europe to bask in the literary cornfields of McLean, Illinois. I became the entire production department. 5-6 books a month plus galleys. Thus the errors!