-startled-

Goodness. Image Comics just turned Chance down. I’m completely taken aback, mostly because I didn’t expect to hear *anything* from them. It’s a direct little rejection letter saying, in essence, “Good try, but not good enough.” On the positive side, I just turned the galleys in… (eta: let me mention that I’m not crushed, destroyed, or hurt or anything. I’m really just startled. I’m sort of like, “Well then! Guess that’s that!” O.O)

blee

This is not the stage of the manuscript when you want to be working through it and finding whole pages you’ve marked up with red ink. In theory you’ve moved well beyond that by the time you get to the galleys. Ahahahah. >.< Usually I don't have quite this many markups. OTOH, usually I haven't rewritten a book four or five times. There's stuff where I just managed to not see that I'd screwed up the punctuation after revising a scene eight hundred times, or where a sentence that made…

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