publication updates

I hope you are doing well.

I am writing with an update and to check in on your progress with the draft essay. How is it coming along?

I wanted to send you a link to a conversational project description that I wrote that might help offer an overview of the work (my apologies that this is coming through so late, it is only that I just wrote it), since I realized that the documentation is otherwise quite dense and might be difficult to distill.

Second, I wanted to introduce you to Lauren Wetmore, who will be joining me in this project as the publication editor. Just to give you a heads up since you will likely receive some emails from her, or see her comments appear on your text.

Sending you warm greetings, and hope spring is starting to show up in Vancouver,

my best,

Josh

Thank you, Josh, for sending me the project description and for introducing me to Lauren. It's nice to meet you virtually, Lauren. I look forward to working with you on this project.

I will be sending you a completed or nearly completed text for initial edits/feedback by the end of the week. A heads up that the text might be longer than expected... I'm at 3500 words and still have some ground to cover. The final text might be around 5000 words... if it's too long we can cut it down, but I want to lay it all out to start.

Spring is slowly settling in with cherry blossoms starting to pop. In two weeks, streets will be covered by magical pink canopies. My favourite time of year in Vancouver. I'll send some of that magic your way if you're still dredging out of winter.

Mariane

thank you so much for the update and the cherry blossoms! Here in Berlin we had a whole week of uninterrupted sunshine, which really worked magic for my mood.

I am very excited to see your draft, and don't apologize if it is longer than expected.

sending you energy for the final writing spurt, and we'll be in touch soon after receiving the text,

warmly,

Josh

I hope you had a good weekend.

I'm happy to send you a near-complete draft and hope that your input will help me untangle some loose ends:

Feel free to go in and make some notes and edits.

A few notes:

Mariane

thank you so, so much for sending this over. You may have noticed that I already made some initial comments, but if it would be ok with you,

I am going to need a couple of weeks time to really work on the edits, and I expect that Lauren will also have comments as well.

So it would be great if you could wait until we send you the fully edited version before returning to work on it.

With that said, from what I read, I am so excited by what you have already written, and look forward to what this paper will become.

I think it has nailed some very key points of the project and really does justice to the complex political history in which the work is situated.

So it's really great!

And full feedback is on the way.

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