I am utterly thrilled for you!
MWAH!
Oh, I wish those council guys would let me have an hour alone in the room with her, if I was larger and had grenades.
Willow ,'Storyteller'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Strix - May 25, 2011 7:37:29 pm PDT #4431 of 6690
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Liese S. - May 25, 2011 7:45:59 pm PDT #4432 of 6690
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Barb! Congrats!!!
Amy - May 25, 2011 8:03:51 pm PDT #4433 of 6690
Because books.
Such an excellent day for Buffista authors! Congratulations, Sox, and Barb, that's awesome. Was this at BEA, or a separate thing?
I had a big line! And we ran out of books, which was wild, but also sort of sad, because there were about a dozen people left who looked totally bummed. And so many librarians, which is thrilling. (I never really expected the romances to be acquired for many libraries.)
I'm now exhausted and barely coherent. Lonnnnnng day. Oh, and I met P-C's author friend, Mira Grant!
Typo Boy - May 25, 2011 9:21:15 pm PDT #4434 of 6690
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
OK got feedback from senior editor. Need to do one more round of revisions. But the feedback was she went over two chapters and pointed out where there poor transitions, and lack of clarity and so on.
And then she told me go through the rest of the book and find where the same problems were through out. And OK poor transitions I can find. But would it be unreasonable to ask her to go through the rest of the book and point out anything she finds unclear? Because while I understand that stuff that is clear to me might be unclear to a reader, it occurs to me that pointing out where this is happening is something an editor might do. Am I misunderstanding the role of an editor?
Typo Boy - May 25, 2011 9:22:38 pm PDT #4435 of 6690
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
OH and total congrats to Barb! Been a bit distracted.
hippocampus - May 26, 2011 1:03:51 am PDT #4436 of 6690
not your mom's socks.
Congratulations Barb! That's awesome!
Go you Amy! Running out of books is a great problem to have.
Gudanov - May 26, 2011 4:07:18 am PDT #4437 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Congratulations Barb!
Beverly - May 26, 2011 10:53:53 am PDT #4438 of 6690
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
That's wonderful, Barb!
And go, Sox!
Amy - May 27, 2011 8:28:35 am PDT #4439 of 6690
Because books.
But would it be unreasonable to ask her to go through the rest of the book and point out anything she finds unclear?
An editor should be editing your entire book, not a representative sample. She should absolutely be pointing out which parts she finds unclear, or thinks might be unclear to a reader.
Amy - Jun 02, 2011 6:57:18 am PDT #4440 of 6690
Because books.
Given the conversation in Natter (on Plan B), Maggie Steifvater's two recent blog posts about the publishing industry and writerly jealousy are really timely.
The second one is the one I linked -- the first one is linked within the post.