Big changes coming
I recently signed a contract for a second book to be published in 2009. (Here's information about the first.) The newer new book, to be called For the Sake of Argument: A Life in the Law, will be published by Kaplan Publishing, the trade-book division of the big test-prep company.
It will be about the study and practice of law and will take the form of a memoir, but I'm going to leave out the uninteresting autobiographical bits like my being raised by feral dogs only to fall into a heroin habit after matriculating at Harvard Medical as a 12-year-old.
Taking on these writing commitments has diverted my energy from the blog, as you may have noticed. Also, I find myself more fascinated by the presidential race than by the relatively trivial disgraces of our judicial system.
It's such a bizarre year: that New York Times story headlined "Congressional Leaders Stunned by Warnings" on the economy - "the congressional leaders were told 'that we’re literally maybe days away from a complete meltdown of our financial system'" - followed by the Washington Post covering McCain's published praise of bank deregulation under the headline "McCain Health-Care Article Fuels New Clash Over Economy", as if the "clash" were the part that mattered.
And then there's Sarah Palin's gift of an almost precisely 60-second demonstration of her unreadiness to serve as vice president under an elderly cancer patient.
So all of the thoughts about law and the legal profession that until recently were poured into this blog are instead going toward the books, and with the little bit of attention remaining I find myself thinking about things other than the silly affectations of our judges. Also, I have a nagging feeling that I really ought to focus the website on publicity for the books.
So here's what probably is going to happen, assuming I can re-figure out how to configure a Squarespace website, three years after I initially launched this blog.
First: a new blog will be started, with a broader focus than the law. I like the narrow focus of Judging Crimes and don't want to dilute it, but I also want to include topics that will be of more immediate interest to that species known as "non-lawyers." Two blogs located at the same site seems ridiculous, but since I'm not sure exactly why it's ridiculous I'm going to do it.
Unless someone convinces me it's a really stupid thing to do, I'm going to call the new blog "Think Better Of It," adopting the magpie as a mascot in honor of its reputed habit of snatching shiny objects.
Second, at a more technical level, and assuming I can recall how to configure this thing, the blog will become just one page embedded within the website vaingloriously known as JoelJacobsen.com.
Third, I might even put some pictures up. Maybe even a more recent photo of me.
Fourth, other stuff that escapes me at this precise moment. Stay tuned.
Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 11:03PM in About this website
Reader Comments (1)
thanks for this.