So you want to be a writer?

[swan_tower]

Copy-edits for A Star Shall Fall arrived today. They're due back shortly after New Year's.

I got yer Glamorous Life of the Writer right here. >_<

Comments

[kmousie.livejournal.com]

Best of luck! As you may have seen in my journal today, I'll be reading through 2,400 pages of ERISA and Title VII cases over my vacation next week, so I feel for you!

[kendokamel.livejournal.com]

Good luck! :D

[kurayami-hime.livejournal.com]

Good times?

No, wait, I know the answer to that one...

[kmousie.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I'm trying to get through as much of the ERISA stuff as I can before I leave today. There's less of it, but it's more painful. Such a lovely sounding name for something so confusing!

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I think you win.

Or lose.

Or something.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

One of my non-fiction publishers once did that to me on Dec 23rtd, with a requirement for it to be returned --- with a complete index as well as the edits -- by 1st Jan. Because writers don't get holidays.

[stormsdotter.livejournal.com]

Good luck with reading through the copy edits. If you get annoyed with the Editors, please remember, they're only human.

I spent three years as a textbook editor. Let me tell you, Editors really try to catch everything and make the work better. Sometimes we miss things.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't get annoyed at the copy-editor (except in one case, a short story, where I think the CE really overstepped their bounds). The only thing bugging me on that front this time around is entirely my fault; for two books running now, I've forgotten to inform the CE that I universally differ from the default style on a few points of capitalization, so she keeps correcting those to what she thinks is the style of the previous books. Hopefully I'll remember for #4, so we can avoid repeating this dance.