{"id":3266,"date":"2020-03-31T13:45:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T03:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/?p=3266"},"modified":"2020-03-31T14:04:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T03:34:16","slug":"publishing-coronavirus-wakefield-diary-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/2020\/03\/publishing-coronavirus-wakefield-diary-6\/","title":{"rendered":"PUBLISHING IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS: Julia Beaven on gardening, jigsaws and the changing world"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The next entry into our staff diary series on working in publishing in the time of coronavirus features Wakefield Press editor Julia Beaven, talking about being at home while the world changes around her.<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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I don\u2019t iron much but I\u2019m ironing now. Why is it making me sad? It could be Roberta Flack on Spotify, or that deep sense of nostalgia \u2013 a sort of grief, really \u2013 for how things were a month ago, or last week. But I think it\u2019s the realisation I won\u2019t be wearing these clothes, the \u2018good\u2019 clothes that I iron, because I\u2019m not going anywhere. That my safe, r\"The<\/a>elatively small world has shrunk to my house and garden and the occasional venture out for food and exercise. That living under the flight path is no longer a nuisance; that the newsreader on Radio National no longer says, \u2018And now for sport\u2019 \u2013 the bit I listened to most closely. That I can\u2019t hug my girls, barely see them at all.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re scrambling for safe paths, reassurance, home-based activities. I spent yesterday afternoon on hands and knees scrubbing the bathroom floor (strangely satisfying and ensured a good night\u2019s sleep).<\/p>\n

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The spiders are too terrified to weave their webs in my house. I\u2019m dusting off pastimes. I\u2019ve bought wool and I\u2019m going to knit something colourful and slightly misshapen. I\u2019ll be setting up a table for a jigsaw. I\u2019m impatient for the autumn rains to fall so the weeds can grow and I can plant myself in the garden and plunge my hands into the soft dirt.<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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And I\u2019ll keep editing, considering each word, deleting and replacing, polishing sentences until they gleam, checking facts and spelling and consistency. No threat to anyone here except the careless author. Getting books ready for those looking for comfort and distraction and escape during the uncertain weeks ahead.<\/p>\n

All Wakefield Press staff are working hard, some from home, some scattered through the near empty rooms at Mile End. We\u2019re producing books and promoting our old classics and our exciting new releases. Ensuring our e-books are available.<\/p>\n

The biggest challenge is finding a market in the absence of events. But surely people will keep buying our books. Online or from bookshops. Physical books to hold in your hands and savour, ebooks delivered straight to your device.<\/p>\n

\"Harbour\"<\/a>I will keep working on the soon to be released The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine<\/em>, an explosive book revealing the manipulation of research by Big Pharma; or sorting Victor Trumper from The Don in Ashley Mallett\u2019s latest collection of cricket gems. And at other times, perhaps in the garden with the radio going and dirt up my nails, I\u2019ll be railing against bad grammar \u2013 \u2018It\u2019s number <\/em>of people, not amount!\u2019 I\u2019ll mutter. Or I\u2019ll grumble about the purpose of the future tense when someone says, \u2018We\u2019ll be doing this moving forward<\/em>.\u2019 And when I get completely disillusioned (and impossible to live with) I\u2019ll calm myself with a poem or two from from our wonderful poets, Ali Whitelock and Kate Llewellyn, feisty wise women sharing soothing balm for the times. And I\u2019ll go chat to the magpies, blissfully unaware.<\/p>\n

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Now old, beauty no longer makes me cry.<\/p>\n

Instead, from time to time, there are<\/p>\n

glimpses of what else matters<\/p>\n

and a chance to act.<\/p>\n

Kate Llewellyn, from <\/em>Harbour<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Support Wakefield Press by buying our beautiful books!\u00a0 Visit our website<\/a> or contact us on 08 8352 4455 for more information, or to purchase a book (or three!).\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>We can post your purchase to your doorstep!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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