Monday, July 09, 2007

Revisions done

Telling you to revise is like telling you to breathe.
--my agent, to me, November 2006


With a full half-hour to spare on the deadline, I just sent in the revisions to Wicked Game. I'm not nearly as sad to leave this book as I was last year, because I know that I not only get to do line edits in a month or so, but in September I get to start Book 2 (still tentatively titled Bad to the Bone, at least in my mind).

Last year when I sent off the manuscript to my agent for submission, I didn't know if I'd ever get to return to this world and these characters. I cried buckets. The fact that I was listening to Disc 2 of The Essential Leonard Cohen really didn't help.

No time for melancholy, anyway, or even a celebratory Scotch. Gotta go feed the beasts, shower (hey, there's a concept!), and pack for Dallas.

I promise I'll blog from the convention at least once or twice. I'll be too tired to do it when I come back. Wish me luck!

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3 Comments:

Best of luck on Saturday!

Cecilia

Posted by: Anonymous Anonymous at 7/09/2007 4:58 PM

Good luck Jeri! Can't wait to hear about the convention :)

Posted by: Blogger selkiewriter at 7/10/2007 8:57 PM

One thing you should know about me: I always break promises. Sorry I didn't blog at the convention, but I was too busy or tired and the hotel wanted to charge us EACH $10 to connect to the internet. Bogus.

Posted by: Blogger Jeri at 7/16/2007 1:57 PM

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