I’ve been working on the book. (Imagine that!) And, not that it matters to anyone but me, I’m not going to worry about the colophon. A colophon implies a certain persnicketyness or even perfectionism, and I don’t want any would-be publishers to think I’ll be difficult to work with.

And besides, my favorite colophons are WAY TOO LONG, like one my mother sent to me with a note (“Your father thinks this is a bit much”). Some colophons not only identify of the typefaces used, but describe them, summarize their general uses, and of course reveal briefly their history. (If Nabakov were still around he could probably work a whole novel into a colophon, the way he did with footnotes in Pale Fire.)

So . . . in the interest of actually finishing the book, I’m dropping the damn colophon.