This is why historical fiction
via Educating Alice “Writing historical fiction is the easiest way to escape the Now; to avoid dealing with the internet, you only have to step back a decade or two. If you’d prefer to write about characters entirely innocent of TV, you’d need to retreat as far as the 1940s; then you get the second [...]
Contract!
So my contract came yesterday. The first thing you do with your contract is look at it for a while. You admire the legal-size paper and its lovely off-white color. You rub your thumb over the publisher’s logo on the top. You suspect doing that will never get old. Then you sit down with a [...]
Surprise Present!
This, people, is how you know you married well. When this is your late-Winter Holiday, late-Valentine’s Day present.
Revisions: Day 7
Pats on the head in revision letter: 3 Concrete issues in revision letter: 13 Issues resolved: 4 Issues requiring clarification: 2 Issues I’m struggling with: 2 Words removed: 791 Scenes deleted: 1 Scenes almost deleted: 1 Scenes altered fundamentally: 1 Scenes added: 0 Lingering historical inaccuracies mitigated: 2 Translated into medieval: “in the crosshairs” –> [...]
It’s Finally Here
And we’re off to the races. I got my revision letter for Without the Walls from my editor today. It’s just over three pages. It’s got the little Harcourt logo in the corner. I’ve read it five times. What strikes me are all the tiny, unintentional things that need my attention the most. Things that [...]