There was a glitch with the copy edits…which I haven’t talked about much if at all.\u00a0\u00a0 They didn’t come, and didn’t come, and finally I was told that they weren’t able to contact the copy editor.\u00a0\u00a0 I tried to be a Good Little Writer and just keep truckin’ on the revisions, but as time passed, I worried more and more.\u00a0 (So, of course, did my editor.)<\/p>\n
The worry began to interfere with my ability to concentrate on the book (no, I do not possess superhuman concentration) and I began to spend more online time far away in another corner of the internet.\u00a0\u00a0 Nature listservs, email, the new SFWA website’s beta test…anything…<\/p>\n
The good news is that today the lost was found, and Editor assures me that the delay will not affect the release date (one of the things I was worried about, because I’d been told July 10 was the hard deadline for my getting the copy edits back to Production.)<\/p>\n
After hearing that good news, I was almost immediately able to settle down,\u00a0 ignore emails and listservs and get back to work.\u00a0 Several hours of useful revision-work followed,\u00a0 and a major “sludgy” area suddenly cleared–I rewrote the bad section easily and quickly, deleted the stuff that didn’t belong, and suddenly the whole section recovered movement and life.<\/p>\n
So maybe tomorrow I can zip along and get several more chunks done before the copy edits land on my doorstep.<\/p>\n