Working for a living

There is plenty going on, here in Sinaloa (where the expected PRI candidate for Governor quit the party, and will probably run as a PRD-PAN fusion candidate… if PAN lets him, which isn’t a sure thing) in the Capital (where Felipe Calderón is rapidly losing legitimacy even among his own party) and throughout Latin America…

… but that doesn’t mean I can quit my day job, so I’m slacking off on posting here for the next couple of days.

The book we’re preparing for press — Revolutionary Days:  A Chronology of the Mexican Revolution — which I had hoped to have to the printers by now — requires more than the usual amount of editing.  Ray Acosta, the author did a MASSIVE amount of work, digging out and organizing the details of one of the most chaotic and confusing events in history.  Revolutionary Days is a book that will stand as a basic research and reference book for Latin American Studies scholars for years to come.

The book would be about three times as long if we had used the full, conventional footnote form.  There’s nothing wrong with short form reference notes… but it means they damn well  have to be accurate.  And double checked.  And triple checked.  And cross referenced in the bibliography.

Hey I’m not complaining, ’cause I really need the work…