No writing this week–family stuff, teaching, and reading for a juried award. Let’s see how this week shapes up!
Edits, Edits, Edits!
This week I’ve been doing revisions on my WIP based on my editor’s suggestions, and met with her on Wednesday. She had some good suggestions for placement, and offered to look at my back cover copy (yay!). And I spent time on two editing projects, one of which went faster than I expected, and the other I’m almost done (as much as I can until the other editors get back to me–it’s an anthology with 3 editors). This week I want to finish the edits for my novel, and start a third editing project.
Back to editing!
As I am waiting for my editor to get my WIP back to me, I’m working with an editing client–more ghost-writing, actually–doing research into the types of books he will be competing with. I’m also reading some really great books.
Box of books arrived!
As predicted, I started the course I’m teaching and began work with a new client. I’m also judging for an award program (adult fiction) and got a box of books this week, so I’ve begun reading. I like the opportunity judging awards gives me to broaden my reading–these are literary, not spec-fic awards.
Nice milestone
I finished my read-through of The Shadow Spy’s Wife and submitted it to a freelance editor. It still has issues, but the editor will do 2 passes. This week: plan a new course I’m teaching (starting Tuesday!) and dig out a bunch of stuff around the house. I don’t get the novel back for a couple of weeks, and the glut of editing clients I was expecting in January seems to be only one person so far, and I don’t start with him until Thursday.