The copy edits are done and in the mail. I’m going to go sleep for a week. Except I have to do copy edits on THE QUEEN’S BASTARD. Over the weekend, ideally. *dies in a pit*
Totally unrelated to this….
70 or so pages to go, which means I’m not going to get it copied and in the mail before grabbing a cuppa with . I’ll take just getting it out today, though. I’ve got to figure out how to send something UPS or FedEx. There’s no such thing (so far as I can tell) like a Kinko’s here where you can copy and send it all at the same place. Oh well. It’ll go out today one way or another, and production can wait the few days it takes…
procrastinating
After several hundred pages of STET, a girl starts to wonder if it’s actually her, and she’s doing something really wrong. I’m not, but man. One’s faith sours. There’ve been a couple places where part of the page has been blanked out, so I’ve had to ask for new scans. Apparently those pages are were post-it flags with comments from the CE were missed in the copying. My editor’s assistant said it was just as well I couldn’t read them, because they’d only made my editor’s blood pressure rise. I…
for pity’s sake
What am I doing up? I gotta say, though, this homeopathic cold cure I was given at Pi-Con (by a shaman, no less) works goddamned miracles. He gave me a couple pills each of arnica and belladonna which are diluted to the point of having no recognizable, er, well, poison, but which for whatever obscure magical reason retain or obtain a healing quality during the reduction process. The god-awful cold I had that weekend was 90% better the next day. I’ve been taking, through the course of this one, arnica…
copy edits & octocon
A hundred pages done. Out of those 100, there are, I think, two pages upon which nothing is stetted. Of those two, one of them had only one CE change and the other had maybe three. Most had…far more than that, so it was a hundred very long pages. 321 to go. I basically have to have this done Thursday so it can be photocopied and go into the mail on Friday (which reminds me, I need to figure out where I can go in Cork to UPS/FedEx/rush-mail a manuscript…