Sarah is going over the first 3 chapters of US with a fine-toothed comb for me, nitpicking sentence structures and spelling errors and doing detail work. She’s thus far found some very embarrassing errors (worth instead of worse, in the third sentence, no less) and is generally improving the writing. Sarah is my heeeeeeero! And now I must meet.
mustard
Every time I look at that last entry, I start singing, “They got the mustard out!”
chapters!
He wants the first three chapters!
aaaannnnnd…
Aaaaand I have sent a two paragraph synopsis of Urban Shaman off to the nice publisher who asked for it. Let there be a great crossing of crossable bits!
bird dogs
The birds are not nearly as entertaining a distraction when Chanti goes leaping off the deck and chases after them for ten minutes and I am not able to catch her. She’s locked in her kennel for the rest of her life. In the meantime, I sent email to a publisher this morning asking a couple of questions. The email bounced, so I sent another email to the info address at the publisher saying I’d tried sending this email and it’d bounced and was there a more appropriate email I…