A busy day

Don and I decided it was high time we picked up the mail.  OH MY GOD!  There was a ton!  Not only that, one was an express package from Orca Books with the copy edits that I was supposed to read over and make (minor) changes if desired.  All to be done by June 13th.  Gack!  Today is June 13th and I just opened the thing.  We went straight home, admiring the Advance Reading Copies of First Time on the way. 

I really like the section Andrew used on the back cover.  Very nice.  Smart. 

We got home, I worked like a madman.  Luckily it’s a hi/low book so there were only 108 pages to plow through and the manuscript was pretty clean. 

Then I called Andrew and we went over my requested changes, and he (delightful man) agreed to all of them. 

So, I did manage to get it done by deadline time, but it was a close thing.

On another good front, my editor/publisher, Kathy Lowinger, (who did Porcupine) is going to publish my next novel.  Yay!  And the even better news is…she likes it pretty much the way it is.  Only a few little tweaks and it is off to the printers.  She didn’t like the title, however.  (Try and Stop Me) And wants me to try to come up with another. 

Titles are hard. 

Tonight, I go to the CWILL party, to celebrate another year, and to thank K.C. Dyer and James McCann for serving as our President and Vice President.  What an awful lot of work they did.  I really don’t know how they managed.  Not to mention that both of them have books coming out by the bucket load. 

That’s about it for now.  I’m not even going to glance sideways at the enormous pile of the other stuff (i.e. mail) that we picked up as well.  That will have to wait until tomorrow.  After I have settled down and pounded out at least a paragraph or two of my new manuscript that may-or-may-not-become-a-book.

Bye for now.

Posted by Meg Tilly on Friday, June 13, 2008 in Chewing the Fat