It was a weekend of good food, good friends, and copy edits. I do two passes — the first is the in-depth cleanup pass through the manuscript. The copyeditor has gone through in red pencil with corrections and queries. I go over her changes and add my own. I hardly Read more…
‘Tis said that there is no apartment cleaner than that of a graduate student whose thesis is due. I think a writer whose copy edits have to be turned around in slightly over a week could give grad students a run for their money. So far I’ve cleaned the kitchen Read more…
The FACT reading group just had their discussion and critique of Gordath Wood and kindly invited me to dinner after they discussed the book. To my relief and delight, they mostly liked it. Yay! There were a few folks for whom the book didn’t work, and their reasons were valid Read more…