Book news et al...

I received an email from the publishers today, who said that my proposal was accepted. Although they also said that book proposals take up to six weeks to process (for some obscure reason which they did not explain). I expect, being a specialist publisher, that they have to ''sift the wheat'' in a certain sense - decide what is publishable and what isn't - but I still can't understand why a book proposal takes so long to sort out. In the meantime, I am still short of money - and a friend showed me another greatly interesting book this evening which I have added to my ''wish-list.'' My Amazon basket (that is, the stuff I haven't ''saved for later'') is currently at £53 or thereabouts - dare I add more? It has been a while since I treated myself, and so I think I shall just go to the checkout regardless...