Oh. Well. That was a surprise...

One of my manuscripts has been in an editor's hands for a while, and she asked me to e-mail her if I didn't hear back by a certain date. The date passed, so I e-mailed. Last night, I came home (LATE) and decided to check my e-mail...finding an e-mail from her saying "almost done, you should hear back by Monday, etc". I shot a message back saying "no problem, etc etc".

Then I get another message, with an added comment about "Ah, another night owl, I see." So we start shooting the breeze.

Now, I'm on vacation - I'm in Seattle, though I live in Japan. And wouldn't you know? SHE is in Seattle.

So she wants to have lunch. To discuss my manuscript.

She told me up front that she can't publish it "the way it is now", but that she wants to discuss what needs to be done so that they can. She likes the story, she called it a well-written manuscript...but didn't go into detail via e-mail about what needs to be changed.

I have NO IDEA where this is going to go...but an editor wants to have lunch to discuss my manuscript. Holy. Hell. I'm assuming she doesn't want to have lunch so she can tell me I need to set it on fire and never let it see the light of day again.

And I will now suffer from insomnia and elevated blood pressure until I see her.

StevenJ said:

Yes, Your Sockiness...

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You're such a sheep...

Well done, Lori, I really hope it goes very well for you.

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Thanks I hope so too...I'm admittedly letting my inner pessimist run wild with it, but I still have my fingers crossed.

scarletpeaches said:

Clearly, there is a HUGE market for fulthprawn in the States these days.

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Nonsense. I would never write fulthprawn. NEVER. My stories are as pure as the driven snow.




*hides manuscripts*

scarletpeaches said:

Given the fact it's Lori and the nature of the book she's written, I wouldn't be too surprised.

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Quiet, you...

The update:

She likes it - it isn't quite what she wants to publish, BUT she gave me a whole list of things that could be changed to make it what she wants. She loves my characters, the story line, etc...and the changes won't "damage" the story in the slightest. We had a great conversation, great lunch, all in all it rocked.

The biggest issue?

*snerk*

It needs more sex.

Roger that! I'm on it...

scarletpeaches said:

Good Christ above.

An editor told Lori to put more smex in her book.

MOAR SMEX!

I ask you.

Gerronwi gerrin' it smexed up!

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Believe me...I'm on it.

I think I've died and gone to rejection heaven. "Put more sex in it and we'll talk."

And here I was holding back a bit because I thought it was bordering on too much smex. Now I get to pull out all those scenes I cut because I thought "Hmmm, might be a bit over the top".

I've died and gone to Pervadise.

scarletpeaches said:

Hahahhahaha I wish I'd kept all those MSN convos that went:

Lori: Will you read this chapter and tell me if there's too much smex in it?

Me: *Reads* SEND MOAR NAO!

Lori: I think I'll take out that scene with the ****** and the ****** of *******. It might be a bit much. And I should probably tone down the *** *** *** on the ******.

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Well...rest assured...there will now be moar ***, *** *** ***, and *******.

This is officially the best "please revise" I've ever received. Technically it's the only one...but I don't think anything will ever top this.