I work as a book compositor, using Quark XPress to turn authors' manuscripts into the books that the designers envisioned. The company that employs me does work for Little, Brown, Simon & Schuster, Random House, Penguin, etc., so books I helped produce have been funnelled through bookcrossing and are roaming around the world. A comforting thought.

I read, make sculptures, print with an old printing press, do some woodworking, and enjoy being with wife and young daughter.

I listen to Frank Sinatra, Rolling Stones, Beck, Temptations, Scarlatti & early AC/DC. I read Carl Hiaasin, Marcel Proust, Neal Stephenson, Margery Allingham, Gerard Manley Hopkins & The New Yorker.

This is going to be fun.