Just under the wire, edited the first 10,000 words of an Angry Robot submission for a client. Really enjoyed these first two chapters–I would think they should get a publisher’s attention.
Strangers is a Wrap!
Finished and mailed in the final proofs for Strangers Among Us today. Now finishing my final editing project before Christmas.
Strangers Among Us – final edits
Back from New Orleans and doing final proofing of Strangers Among Us. The book is very close!
Research: Necessary Fun
New Orleans: what a location for a story–the jazz scene, the art scene, the bayou, the French heritage…but it was the plantations that were of particular interest to me in researching my pirate novel. The novel is set partly in the Caribbean (and I have been to Aruba and Salvador, Brazil), but not to a plantation or to slave homes. Rounding out the research!
Yep–Novel’s gone
Always nice to see the novel gone to the publisher. Got a lovely reply from the editor, too, saying he received it and asking me to nudge him in a couple of months if I haven’t heard anything. I thought that was so kind! So often, the novel goes out into a void and the protocol seems to be: don’t bug the editor.