1. Embarked upon full-on mental health blowout, including Questioning of Existence, Copious Weeping on Subway, and PickingFights with Strangers on Street. We are such a delight, mm-hmm. Feeling much better today, thanks to extensive soothing noises from Support Team and afternoon spent listening to 50 Cent and making pickles

2. Too busy thrashing about in throes of existential malaise to so much as look at your Publishing Questions, so please feel free to keep sending. We will compose ourselves and answer them later this week, once we've taken out our misery on some first-time novelists.