The Next Circle of Hell

Welcome back, Tracy.

YA, you've sure intrigued me!

Labour day?? YA! *grumbles and goes back to editing*

YAwriter72 said:

Okay, so my !! news just got even better today! Can't wait to share the details, they tell me I can spill after Labor Day! (I had to say "something" though cause its killing me not to! LOL

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Woohoo! I remember that feeling. My offer came in early June, and I wasn't allowed to say anything until just a few weeks ago. I was DYING. Keeping that stuff inside is so hard! And you know what? My contract still hasn't come (in its final form, at least). God help me if my agent had said I couldn't announce the news until after I signed the contract!

YA!!!!! SO. EXCITING. Can't WAIT to hear your news!!!!! :-D

A total segue here -- what the heck ever happened to Miss Plum? Anyone know? Man, I miss that avatar of hers.

Hello? Hello?

Where the heck is everyone?

I'm here! I've just been not having much to report. Nothing bad, nothing good, just workin'.

Me too guys. Virtual spezna to you both!

Hey, Peggy. I was not long ago PMing with a writer in another thread about Miss. Plum, both of us wondering where she'd gone. I've not heard where she's at, but I sincerely hope it's not bad news that's kept her away. I miss her being around. I swore I had her email address, but I can't for the life of me find it. I'm going to scour my old PMs later and see if I can track it down.

If you're out there Miss. Plum. Come back! We miss you

WOW - I was just thinking about her the other day, as well, when I was going thru some other threads. I miss her wit and wisdom, plus I would love to know how things are going with her project.

Working from home today, and taking a wee lunch break - want to squeeze in a few words on the rewrites - gawd, I wish I had about 2 weeks off from work, so I could get this finished and back into agent's hands.

Just finished reviewing the author's copy -- a cautionary note to all of you. After all the careful copy-editing we did, there were still some typos, some things the copy-editor and I had discussed that didn't find their way into the ms, and lots of formatting errors. It took about a day and a half to work through it twice. Now, off to the proof-reader!

Backing up Peggy, here...after many many many rounds of editing with me and my agent, a very careful line edit by the editor, and an extremely thorough edit by a copy editor, I found a continuity error just sitting there that all of us had missed.

Books are long. These things happen...

Some of the things that popped up had been addressed in the copy edit but somehow didn't show up in the final version sent to me. So it just means you have to be really, really careful and not assume that the final copy edit contains everything you and your editor discussed/changed.

And I still made tweaks irrespective of all of that -- last chance!

Lily, Lisa and Peggy - are all stages of your edits hard copy, or were any of them electronic?


Got an update from the agent. Still waiting on a couple of responses, including an older one that's prohibiting us from going to other imprints of one of the Big 6. *smiles patiently* I'm trying to amuse myself with the contradictory rejections I've received.

So far, electronic. Last book I had a hard copy pass and then hard copy galleys. Waiting on the galleys and I'm not sure what form they will come in.

They were all electronic, although I printed off the one I got from my copy editor and retyped the changes I agreed with into my original ms as "track changes" doesn't let you see what's been replaced with a suggested change unless you reject it. I wanted to see what I'd put originally and compare that with what he was proposing.

Btw, I am now on Twitter (again) as @peggy_blair (someone took my unhyphenated name while I was away, drat!). Follow me so I can follow you back!

Peggy Blair said:

Btw, I am now on Twitter (again) as @peggy_blair (someone took my unhyphenated name while I was away, drat!). Follow me so I can follow you back!

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But...but this directly contradicts your signature!

I'll be following you shortly, Peggy! My Twitter handle is below...

Yes, I will have to change my signature block!

I will follow you O/L, thanks!

Exciting day today. Spoke to the folks at marketing and discovered that TBO will be on the front cover of Penguin's rights catalogue. It's going to be their lead book for spring, 2012!!!!!!

AWESOME, Peggy!

And I think you'll like Twitter. It's actually been very useful for me. Be sure to set up searches on your name and book title. They pick up stuff that Google alerts don't, and some of the catches have been great.

I am not sure that I know how to do that?

You just do a search and then it gives you the option to save it and appears under "saved searches" or some such (it's a little different with New Twitter)