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jpskewedthroneThe editor-driven revisions of Well of Sorrows are done.
23 chapters
2 parts
No prologue
No epilogue
No fancy interludes in the middle
712 pages
114 pages of cut text (paragraphs and scenes I removed as useless)
197,680 words (according to Word's counter)
188,000 words (according to the standard 250 words per page approach)
Covering 70 years of one man's life. Sort of. *grin*
And I like it. The end gave me shivers. I like what I did with this. I like how it's a fantasy, but not the typical kind of fantasy (even though it has those trappings). I like my main characters and how they all turned out. I like this world.
So what's next? Well, for this book, I'll let it sit for a few days, fret over whether there's anything more I should change, and then I'll print out two copies--one for myself and one for my editor. Then I'll mail off the one copy to my editor and give the other to a beta-ready, someone who hasn't read any part of the book yet. Then I'll go to Worldcon. *grin*
I still need to write a dedication and an acknowledgments page. I'll do that while I wait for the page proofs to show up. Then I have to read the book again and can make minor changes during the page proofs phase. Minor changes meaning fixing typos and maybe rearranging a sentence or two, nothing that would screw up the pagination. No rewriting of any scenes, no inserting new scenes, not even inserting new paragraphs (unless my editor tells me to).
While this is going on, I'll also work on the "blurb" I'll use on the back of the postcards I'll have made to promote the book. I also intend to make bookmarks for this book, so I'll have to design those. Both of these project can't be completed until I get artwork for the book, so I'll probably be pestering DAW about that as well. They're probably already working on the artwork, to be honest. Or they will once they have the final version of the book from me.
And then comes the promo. I'll probably be asking some of you all to help with that when it gets closer.
But in the meantime, while I anticipate all of that fun stuff, I need to revise the short story I wrote called "Mastihooba" (thanks for all the crits all you OWWers out there!) and submit it to the anthology I was invited to . . . and then I can get to work on the next book. It will be either the new novel, new universe, Shattering the Ley (of which I'm already on the 6th chapter) OR, hopefully, the sequels to Well of Sorrows. Right now those sequels are called Leaves of Anguish and Flames of Sacrifice. I'm thinking of using the title Breath of Heaven for one of them instead, but we'll see what happens.
In the immediate future though, I see the gym. And then celebratory drinking at Delgado's with fellow writer Patricia Bray.
23 chapters
2 parts
No prologue
No epilogue
No fancy interludes in the middle
712 pages
114 pages of cut text (paragraphs and scenes I removed as useless)
197,680 words (according to Word's counter)
188,000 words (according to the standard 250 words per page approach)
Covering 70 years of one man's life. Sort of. *grin*
And I like it. The end gave me shivers. I like what I did with this. I like how it's a fantasy, but not the typical kind of fantasy (even though it has those trappings). I like my main characters and how they all turned out. I like this world.
So what's next? Well, for this book, I'll let it sit for a few days, fret over whether there's anything more I should change, and then I'll print out two copies--one for myself and one for my editor. Then I'll mail off the one copy to my editor and give the other to a beta-ready, someone who hasn't read any part of the book yet. Then I'll go to Worldcon. *grin*
I still need to write a dedication and an acknowledgments page. I'll do that while I wait for the page proofs to show up. Then I have to read the book again and can make minor changes during the page proofs phase. Minor changes meaning fixing typos and maybe rearranging a sentence or two, nothing that would screw up the pagination. No rewriting of any scenes, no inserting new scenes, not even inserting new paragraphs (unless my editor tells me to).
While this is going on, I'll also work on the "blurb" I'll use on the back of the postcards I'll have made to promote the book. I also intend to make bookmarks for this book, so I'll have to design those. Both of these project can't be completed until I get artwork for the book, so I'll probably be pestering DAW about that as well. They're probably already working on the artwork, to be honest. Or they will once they have the final version of the book from me.
And then comes the promo. I'll probably be asking some of you all to help with that when it gets closer.
But in the meantime, while I anticipate all of that fun stuff, I need to revise the short story I wrote called "Mastihooba" (thanks for all the crits all you OWWers out there!) and submit it to the anthology I was invited to . . . and then I can get to work on the next book. It will be either the new novel, new universe, Shattering the Ley (of which I'm already on the 6th chapter) OR, hopefully, the sequels to Well of Sorrows. Right now those sequels are called Leaves of Anguish and Flames of Sacrifice. I'm thinking of using the title Breath of Heaven for one of them instead, but we'll see what happens.
In the immediate future though, I see the gym. And then celebratory drinking at Delgado's with fellow writer Patricia Bray.
