Bargains almost closed

Amidst the self-deconstruction, memes and photographs which have characterised this LJ in recent months, I can report some positive news. I finally heard back from the editor of the forthcoming Doctor Who critical reader, who has received the first reader's report, which was generally approving of my chapter, 'Bargains of necessity?'. There were some good points made - that a new paragraph was necessary to explain at the beginning why Doctor Who and Culloden were worth comparing, add extra background to explain who Sydney Newman and Peter Watkins were or are, and contextualise the battle of Culloden, which probably won't be familiar to much of the book's target audience of media students. Otherwise I await the second report, and then on to publication, finally, towards the end of the year, after the second series of Doctor Who, sadly.

(En route to making those Wikipedia links, I ended up in a small diplomatic incident - look at some of the relevant talk pages.)

( And here's a photograph anyway. I took this one a couple of weeks ago near Blenheim Palace, as dusk approached, while experimenting with my camera's sepia feature. )