And it’s gone, and Editor has received it (email is a lot easier, I will admit.\u00a0 No days of waiting to find out if it actually got there.\u00a0 OTOH,\u00a0 no days of absolute safety during which I can’t be told it’s awful.)<\/p>\n
So what now?\u00a0 Well, what now<\/em> includes pulling out Book Three and easing into it (unless it grabs my arm and yanks me aboard a galloping horse, which books sometimes do),\u00a0 finding the new Great Map and working on it (though that requires clearing off the kitchen table again…),\u00a0 thinking up interesting contests for you, dealing with some business-end-of-writing stuff (still haven’t ordered those bookplates, etc.), and some non-writing Lifestuff coming up (marking my Messiah<\/em> score by rehearsal time, preparing to help with the “fabrication” (technical term, no kidding) of a beef carcass over on a friend’s ranch, and…er….housecleaning.\u00a0 Something that desperately needs doing between books and sometimes doesn’t get done because the next book is already rocketing along.\u00a0\u00a0 But Thanksgiving is coming, with guests, so it must be done.\u00a0 And then there’s the holiday music schedule, which is (as always) full of rehearsals and performances.\u00a0\u00a0 This year our choir’s doing Messiah<\/em> with the\u00a0 Austin Symphony and also being the lead choir for the community sing-along Messiah<\/em>.\u00a0 Plus Advent and Christmas music.<\/p>\n Soon enough (!) Editor and Agent comments will land on me and I’ll be immersed in the next stage of revision\/rewriting.\u00a0\u00a0 So do not imagine that I’m lounging idly in a hammock, dozing the hours away.\u00a0 (Sigh.\u00a0 Nice thought.)<\/p>\n It went in Untitled.\u00a0\u00a0 I need to go back and look at all the titles (none of which grabbed me, but one might grab the editor) and see if I can come up with something that feels right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And it’s gone, and Editor has received it (email is a lot easier, I will admit.\u00a0 No days of waiting to find out if it actually got there.\u00a0 OTOH,\u00a0 no days of absolute safety during which I can’t be told it’s awful.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,63,5],"tags":[64,31],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-submitting","category-the-writing-life","tag-submission","tag-the-book-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470"}],"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=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}