{"id":1618,"date":"2012-07-07T07:28:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T13:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2012-07-07T07:32:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T13:32:43","slug":"limits-lurches-onward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1618","title":{"rendered":"Limits Lurches Onward"},"content":{"rendered":"

Limits of Power<\/em> passed Editor’s approval (my reworking of her comments)\u00a0 and heads for the copy editor on Monday.\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t know what the CE’s schedule is.\u00a0\u00a0 Since Editor did a line edit,\u00a0 and has approved the variations, one would hope CE keeps sticky fingers off the dialogue, but you never know.\u00a0\u00a0 At any rate, I should have the copy edited pages to review sometime between the convention I’m going to on the last weekend in July (ArmadilloCon, for those of you in the Austin area), and WorldCon at the end of August.<\/p>\n

Beyond that, when I return the copy edits, Limits<\/em> will go into the next stage of production, typesetting, where the now-well-marked-up manuscript and the book designer’s art are smushed together software-wise, and come out looking like real book pages…we hope.\u00a0\u00a0 Usually this works quite smoothly with only the occasional error.\u00a0\u00a0 I will get page proofs to go through (and they have other proof-readers, thank goodness, because the deadline on page proofs is usually tighter than the one for copy edits, so it’s easy for a fast-reading person to miss something.)\u00a0\u00a0 Then comes the ARC stage.\u00a0 Well, actually, the ARCs are made off the unproofed file, to save time.<\/p>\n

Then the corrections from proofs go back through the software, hopefully fixing things and not introducing more errors, and the clean file awaits its slot in the printer’s queue, and then the binder’s queue, while the other copy of the clean file is being reformatted for the various e-readers (a step that wasn’t necessary 20 years ago), and the cover for the hardback is being printed and shipped to the bindery, to be mated with (we all hope) the right book.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, for me, it’s on to Book Five, and the map for Book Four.\u00a0 In the hiatus between the last time I worked on the map and now, the room has filled up with things shoved in there when I needed to empty out the living room (which is filling up anyway.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Also yarn.\u00a0\u00a0 She who decides to knit socks needs yarn, two 100 g.\u00a0 balls per pair of socks, for the socks I’m knitting.\u00a0\u00a0 So I need to shove things back to the edges,\u00a0 giving me room to get to the drafting table, and get back in there at least two hours\/day.<\/p>\n

Unrelated to Paks, but good news, is that Random House is putting out a 10th anniversary edition of The Speed of Dark<\/em> next year.\u00a0\u00a0 I need to write a foreward for it.\u00a0 Fairly quickly.\u00a0\u00a0 Along with getting Book Five into very high gear, as I’m behind my personal schedule.\u00a0\u00a0 (Some things from Book Four needed to be approved\/not approved by Editor before I could do some parts of Book Five.)<\/p>\n

Addendum…should have mentioned that the current version of Limits is 862 manuscript pages and 170,635 words (by Word count) without front matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Limits of Power passed Editor’s approval (my reworking of her comments)\u00a0 and heads for the copy editor on Monday.\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t know what the CE’s schedule is.\u00a0\u00a0 Since Editor did a line edit,\u00a0 and has approved the variations, one would hope CE keeps sticky fingers off the dialogue, but you never know.\u00a0\u00a0 At any rate, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,5],"tags":[20,31,107],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-news","category-the-writing-life","tag-progress-report","tag-the-book-business","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1620,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/1620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}