Research and summer

I have a Twitter list of funny academic parody accounts, one of which posted something about how doing your research in the summer is academic freedom. (Because it isn't. Because it's a parody).

ANYWAY, because some projects ended up getting delayed by someone getting really sick and others ended dropping and being the "this data will literally only exist this summer" type, I find myself working on parts of 5 book projects that are all due at various times between now and Sept. 15. 

Most of them are edited books, which is good, but also bad, because for some reason, my colleagues think the editing includes stuff like fixing all their references, as this one publisher really doesn't provide copy editing. This is a real issue for me, as I find myself GREATLY resenting ignoring my kids and spending the summer inside in order to fix their crappy work, including stuff like being 40% over the word limit for the chapters. 

Then the other one with the "only this summer" data is a cool project, but also I think needs to be published as a trade book. All of these projects are my first on the full work side of book publishing. I've done chapters before,  but I think by now I've got the academic book model down. Trade books are a whole new world. I queried an agent and she wanted to see a full proposal (wrote back that same day, which amazed me), but now I don't really know what happens besides me waiting. The whole thing is exciting, but also weird. 

So that's my summer. How's yours?