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Gacked from [livejournal.com profile] snowrabbitses: 1" hole + large octopus = awesome.

Also, the nice lovely courier man rang my doorbell and smilingly delivered my package from HarperCollins today. I nearly kissed his shaggy-bearded face, but I do have some dignity left somewhere around here. I think.

Anyway, I have only had time to glance over the long letter and the numerous comments my editor scribbled on the manuscript, but what I can see looks quite sensible and not at all discouraging. There is a lot of work ahead of me -- tightening, reframing, clarifying, and moving information around -- but hardly any suggestions that I'd disagree with. And even on those few points where I do disagree that something needs to change or be cut, I see that the fault is mine for not explaining that aspect of the story more clearly, and that the difficulty will probably go away once I've done that.

I have no idea how long it's going to take me to actually do the revisions, or exactly how I'm going to tackle them. But I do feel that the end result will be very worthwhile, and that nothing of real value will be lost in the process.

Now if I can only get over the cold, and the PMS, and the three bored, snowbound kids yelling at each other...

Date: 2007-12-04 02:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rj-anderson.livejournal.com
Quick? Really? I mean, I didn't think four months from deal to letter was too bad, but... how long was it before you got your first revision letter after your deal was done?

Date: 2007-12-04 02:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sarah-prineas.livejournal.com
Oh, I was thinking more in terms of publication date. Knife is scheduled for 2009, right? So that's plenty of time!!

My first revision notes arrived six months after we did the deal, and I turned them around in less than three weeks to final draft because we moved up publication by almost a year. I think if we'd been on that old schedule it would've been quite a bit longer.

Date: 2007-12-04 02:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rj-anderson.livejournal.com
My book is actually scheduled for early 2010, so yeah, I'm very glad to have my revisions now!

I hope to work on mine as quickly and efficiently as possible, but the idea of turning them around in three weeks makes me go AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA NO. So I hold you in the utmost respect, nay, awe.

Date: 2007-12-04 02:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sarah-prineas.livejournal.com
Heh. And get this: I had Lyme disease at the time!

So yeah, 2010 means plenty of lovely time.

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