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[rj_anderson]

• 11:28 Early reviews trickling in! All good so far... 1 says book "hard to describe... a tender Artemis Fowl? A funky, modern Flower Faeries?" Hee. #
• 18:10 Checking e-mail obsessively, waiting for a writer friend to share her good news. At least I can be sure it WILL be good news... #

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[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

That is EXCITING! I'm so damn pleased for you. :D

I should be done with this sodding third draft tomorrow.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Are you done now? If so, congratulations!

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

I'm at 104%. One more chapter. Whose brilliant idea was it to rewrite each new draft from scratch? I hate myself.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

I don't always rewrite from scratch, but I definitely retype each new draft. It's the only way I can convince myself to really rewrite scenes when they need them. Otherwise I waste a lot of time tweaking the stuff that's already there instead of giving it the ruthless treatment it needs...

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Only I changed a lot in the third draft so I abandoned the second draft as a guide about half way through and wrote based on the new material. I think it was a good move just a bit painful. Like regrowing all the bones in your arm for three months instead of overnight.

I'm hoping to be done tomorrow so I can reread and clean it up.

Were the advance reviews for the foreign edition or the US edition?

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

A mixture of both, actually. Though the US edition hasn't been formally released into the reviewing wild, a few copies have sneaked out to individuals here and there. But for the next while I expect I'll be seeing more from the UK side since the pub date's now just a couple of months away (as opposed to 7 months for the US!).

(Uses ironic icon)

[shoebox2.livejournal.com]

Hey, I like the 'Flower Faeries' one. Must feel pretty good - esp. in this genre - to know you're not easy to pigeonhole.

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

[NOD NOD]

[kerravonsen]

What is kind of sad about that is that they are desperately trying to pigeonhole, rather than take a book on its own merits.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

And yet what is funny is that I did use the Flower Fairies books, for research. (Well, and very early inspiration, since I'd read and loved them as a kid but always kind of wondered what the grown-up flower fairies looked like.)

I'm just waiting for somebody to say Watership Down.

[kerravonsen]

(stares at icon and tells herself it's stupid to want two copies of the same book just because they have different covers)

I'm just waiting for somebody to say Watership Down.
I doubt that they would, the protagonists aren't animals. Yes, I can see the connections, but comparing Knife with Watership Down wouldn't do for pigeonhole-y purposes.

Edit: and because I was staring, I forgot to also agree that the Flower Fairies books are very inspiring.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

I have the entire set.

...and my cat, who is very odd indeed, has just leaped up on the desk and walked off with one of my pens in her mouth. Now she's playing hockey with it all over the kitchen.

[shoebox2.livejournal.com]

Heh. I used to have a bookmark featuring two cartoon kitties staring eagerly at a cluttered desktop and the caption 'Cats Love to Help!'. Says it all, really.

(stares at icon and tells herself it's stupid to want two copies of the same book just because they have different covers)

Yeah, tell me about it. Owing to the cover dilemma I'm having real trouble deciding whether to pre-order from Amazon.uk or wait for the fun of seeing it on Chapters' shelves...hey, wait, which cover do we get here in Canada, anyway?

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Canada gets the US cover, since it's being distributed through HarperCollins Canada. Australia and New Zealand get the UK cover. I'll be interested, if I get any foreign rights sales, to see what other countries decide to do with it...

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Yes, I definitely like the "unique" angle, which is one of my UK publisher's selling points for the book. "Nothing like it in the marketplace." Score!

[infiniteviking]

Sweeeet. ^___^

[owl]

Yay!