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A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Normally, yes - in my sleep. But this one's had some unusual circs attached to it: my own distaste for the jerking around the publishers gave me. The burning desire to work on the Kinkaid Chronicles, not this. The fact I walked away from it for four months while they decided whether they wanted it or not.
Slightly different sitch, here. Rereading the bit I just wrote, I don't think it sucks. But I want feedback.
Yay, Deb. You might always feel it's a little weak, but I bet it won't show.
Hell, I thought Matty Groves was a little weak - I still think FFoSM is the best of the series.
But I don't think my tastes match the mainstream, anyway.
Just so long as the editor doesn't think this one sucks, I'll be happy. And then I can collect the rest of the #$%# advance.
Lalalalala
DONE!
Cruel Sister is frickin' done.
Final word count: 77,276 (I wanted a 72K minimum, 80K maximum)
Final manuscript page count: 375
Being beta-read by my lovely list. Any changes will be incorporated. It goes to Nic at the office so that he can print it out tonight. Then it goes to Jenn. Then it goes to my editor at St. Martins Minotaur. If it sucks, it sucks.
And tomorrow?
I get to start London Calling.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAW!
Over a month ahead of deadline.
YAY DEB!!!!!!!
(more Bree and JP for mememememememe)
(more Bree and JP for mememememememe)
Exactly what I was thinking.
Yay!
More Bree and JP for ME!
"London Calling" is going to have a look - a bit scary - at the neoNazi skinhead thing in London in the late seventies. The entire book is going to be intense to write.
I'm thinking the chapter hook - LC's version of "GOOD EVENING, (INSERT CITY)! from R&RNF, and "Recording, (insert song title), JP leads it in, on three, one - two -" from WMGGW should be cell phone messages.
"London Calling" is going to have a look - a bit scary - at the neoNazi skinhead thing in London in the late seventies. The entire book is going to be intense to write.
What a backdrop, deb. That's going to be great.
Can my WIP readers look at the last few pages of Cruel Sister, s'il vous plait? So I can finalise and send it off to Nic? Need feedback on the wrapup.
BREE! JP! Back to the Kinkaid Chronicles shortly!
(doing the Has Been Good Little Writer and Now Gets to Do the Books I Want To Write dance)
What a backdrop, deb.
It's actually going to be one of the main themes: a motive for murder.