Excuse One Promotion and tenure.
Excuse Two Somewhat incidental to Excuse One, Routledge has updated and reissued the encyclopedia I co-edited with my former advisor, Tudor England: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland, 2001), in their rebranded reference series. A trifle garish, but nice to have it in paperback now.
Excuse Three Somewhat important to Excuse One, and a very fun project (and total time sink), is my edition of Twelfth Night for Broadview Publishing's Broadview Anthology of British Literature. Originally it was commissioned for publication in the 2nd edition of the anthology (joining King Lear in the Renaissance volume), but costs mounted and it was relegated to the online text. Not where I wished a fully-annotated and freshly-edited text with 25 pages of contextual material to end up. Wiser heads prevailed and after another round of editing in a new format, it entered Broadview's spin-off Anthology Editions series. They did a handsome job and I'm very pleased to have it out (and done!).
So there. At least I had a good excuse.