Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Back In The Saddle Again

A week or so ago, I sent my work in progress out to three first readers and yesterday I received the last of the comments.  Overall, they liked it.  (Whew!) Now I'm working on the rewrite.

I wish I could say I have a nice, leasurely amount of time to turn this puppy around, but I don't.  It has to arrive on my editor's desk on September 7th.  Last time around, I pushed the envelope and didn't get the manuscript ready to go until the day before the deadline.  No problem, I said, and moseyed on down to the local UPS Store.  I nearly hemmoraged (or at least my wallet did) when I learned that to overnight the manuscript was going to cost me a whopping $40.  That ain't gonna happen again.

Coconutcake5-08 The rewrite is going well, and I might even finish up later today.  The thing that's holding me back?  Testing those recipes.  I have a feeling I'll be cooking my butt off this weekend as I make several different versions of each dish until I'm satisfied.  (Including a coconut cake--but wait, it's my birthday.  What's wrong with having three birthday cakes, right?)

Rewrites are either a pain in the butt or a lot of fun.  This one is fun because so far my first readers haven't found too much wrong.  And I love it that they've (hopfully) found all the typos and glitches.  That makes me look good.  I want to please my editor and if he enjoys reading the ms. and is happy he doesn't have to do much work on it--we're both very happy.

But in the meantime, it's back to those recipes.

Oh, let me eat cake!
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5 comments:

  1. DruSeptember 1, 2009 at 10:45 AM

    Good luck with your revisions. How come you don't email your manuscript to your editor?

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  2. UnknownSeptember 1, 2009 at 12:45 PM

    Dru, the contract stipulates that I WILL send in two hardcopies of the manuscript and a copy on a CD--so that's what I'll deliver. However, they now do the copy edit (from my CD) electronically. Eventually, they'll do away with the whole hardcopy deal. (I must say I liked doing edits via hardcopy a LOT better. Eh, progress.)

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  3. Julie HyzySeptember 2, 2009 at 11:25 AM

    Three first readers? Wow! I've been dealing with First Reader issues myself. You are blessed.

    Julie

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  4. DorothySeptember 2, 2009 at 5:53 PM

    Coconut cake, did you say? My absolute favorite. Happy Birthdy and eat all the cake you want.
    Happy tweaking on your ms, too.

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  5. Kaye GeorgeSeptember 3, 2009 at 6:48 PM

    I missed your birthday??? FB has let me down. Happy belated Birthday! Hope it was fun, and the cake turned out. Good luck with the revisions.

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