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rj_andersonSemagic has suddenly taken it upon myself to remind me of birthdays for a change -- how useful! -- so best wishes of the day to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jblum, always one of my favorite Doctor Who writers and an all-around charming fellow. As it happens, you share a birthday with my oldest brother, so that will be easy for me to remember in future.
And to all the other people whose birthdays I have missed recently by virtue of using Semagic instead of the LJ Portal, please accept my apologies and belated congratulations. Congratulations also tolydaclunas and rose_in_shadow, both of whom will be graduating from university soon.
Now, for the big news...
KNIFE IS FINALLY FINISHED!!!
The really major edits, anyway. In response to the editor's recommendations and some excellent critical feedback from first-round betasyahtzee63 and shoebox2, I've rewritten large chunks of the text, rearranged others, and added about 15,000 words to the story in total.
Now I'm throwing it out to the second-round betas (the ones who've read the book in earlier drafts) in hopes of catching and fixing any remaining gaffes. But comments from folks likecesario and rose_in_shadow, who are reading the re-edited version as their first experience of the book, have been on the whole quite positive, so it seems unlikely that the next round of changes will take very long. All of which means that I should be able to send the ms. out by no later than the end of May, Lord willing -- the thought of which makes me very happy.
I shall end with what has to be one of my favorite reviews of Knife ever, fromcesario's comments on Chapter Sixteen:
jblum, always one of my favorite Doctor Who writers and an all-around charming fellow. As it happens, you share a birthday with my oldest brother, so that will be easy for me to remember in future.And to all the other people whose birthdays I have missed recently by virtue of using Semagic instead of the LJ Portal, please accept my apologies and belated congratulations. Congratulations also to
lydaclunas and rose_in_shadow, both of whom will be graduating from university soon.Now, for the big news...
KNIFE IS FINALLY FINISHED!!!
The really major edits, anyway. In response to the editor's recommendations and some excellent critical feedback from first-round betas
yahtzee63 and shoebox2, I've rewritten large chunks of the text, rearranged others, and added about 15,000 words to the story in total. Now I'm throwing it out to the second-round betas (the ones who've read the book in earlier drafts) in hopes of catching and fixing any remaining gaffes. But comments from folks like
cesario and rose_in_shadow, who are reading the re-edited version as their first experience of the book, have been on the whole quite positive, so it seems unlikely that the next round of changes will take very long. All of which means that I should be able to send the ms. out by no later than the end of May, Lord willing -- the thought of which makes me very happy.I shall end with what has to be one of my favorite reviews of Knife ever, from
cesario's comments on Chapter Sixteen:It's more than a love story with wings now, it's like creepy conspiracy spy thriller anarchist stuff. It's the bomb.This pleased me enormously, which probably says something about my deep inner weirdness, but as Eeyore would say, there it is.
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Woo Hoo!!
Date: 2005-05-07 04:52 pm (UTC)Re: Woo Hoo!!
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Date: 2005-05-07 05:04 pm (UTC)I have to tell you, when one reads a promising manuscript and then things get stalled out in one of the many ways that things can when people are trying to live their lives and write fiction, the sensation I have is exactly like that of being stuck partway through a long meandering story that is appearing in installments in a magazine, and being unable to find the next issue. This is, of course, nothing to the sensation of having such a manuscript of one's own, but I'm just so delighted that a book I always had a soft spot for is being all polished up.
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Date: 2005-05-07 06:46 pm (UTC)That's such great news! I am eagerly anticipating the day I can walk into a bookstore and see your name (unless you're using a nom de plume?) on the cover of a book.
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Date: 2005-05-07 06:46 pm (UTC)Naomi (hugs the rewritten D&L)
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Date: 2005-05-07 07:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-05-07 10:31 pm (UTC)It's more than a love story with wings now, it's like creepy conspiracy spy thriller anarchist stuff. It's the bomb.
It sounds fantastic and I hope to be able to buy it and read it one day.
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Date: 2005-05-07 11:33 pm (UTC)That's so absolutely exciting!!! I know you've been working on it for a long time, so I know you're glad to be done with the reedits.
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Date: 2005-05-09 12:37 am (UTC)You sound like you've got ten million betas, but if you'd like someone with a fresh eye who hasn't seen it at all, now that you've actually got the whole thing there, I'd love to beta.
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