And it ends.

[jpskewedthrone]

Not only are the major revisions done, the minor ones are as well. The Cracked Throne has been finished and emailed to my editor. It's pretty much out of my hands now. I can change minor things (words mainly) in the copy edits, but other than that . . .

For those who might want to know, what happens next is that my editor reads the revised version and decides whether she likes it or not. If she does, then the manuscript is considered delivered and they send me the rest of my advance. (Money, money, money!) This is likely to be the only money I get this year from books, since I'll only have one statement from DAW in September, and I doubt I've earned out my advance with just the hardcover. The only way I'll see more money this year is if I sign contracts for the next 3-book deal before the end of December. Unlikely.

Or unless you all go out and buy up the rest of the hardcover copies of Skewed Throne, thus earning out my advance plus some. EXTREMELY unlikely. *grin*

You all have to keep in mind that I got a significant chunk of my advance last year when I signed the contract for Cracked Throne. So I've gotten paid for Cracked Throne once before.

After I get the rest of the advance, I'll see copy edits, a packaged version of the cover which I will share with you guys immediately, galleys which feel an awful lot like the book, and then of course the actual book. I'll likely also be dealing with the paperback version of Skewed Throne sometime in there as well.

And don't forget book 3: Vacant Throne. Got to write that sucker this summer!

But not now. Finish off the semester first. That's the top priority. 2 weeks of no writing, at most.

Comments

[jeffpalmatier.livejournal.com]

Not only are the major revisions done, the minor ones are as well. The Cracked Throne has been finished and emailed to my editor.

Technology has made things so much easier for writers. It's so much easier to email an attachment of a file containing your novel, than having to print out the whole thing and mailing it via snail mail.

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

Actually, I don't usually email the revisions or the first draft. They're typically snail mailed as hard copy. However, since the deadline was moved up, my editor felt email was the quicker option.

I'm hoping the idea catches on though. I hate sitting at the printer for an hour or more watching the ink run dry (and the subsequent cash flow out).

[iagor.livejournal.com]

I had to send in the hard copy for my first pass, a hard copy for my second, and then email a clean copy of the final. Much easier. I hate printing out the whole gigantic thing, because I always get a page sticking out and then no matter how hard I try, I can;t tap it into a neat pile again.

[jeffpalmatier.livejournal.com]

Ah! When Poppy Z Brite talks about sending her publishers her drafts of novels, she always says that she just emails them the attachment, so with what you wrote, I just assumed that this was becoming the norm.

Yeah, I'm going to have to buy ink cartridges soon, and I'm winces at the thought of having to pay all the dough for the damn things.

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

I like the email much better as well. But it does have a few drawbacks: for example, my page counts don't match the page counts on my editor's computer because we somehow, somewhere, have slightly different settings on Word. So my chapter 1 is 40 pages long, whereas when she opens the file it's 37. This makes it hard for my editor to say, "change the sentence on page 56" because it's not really 56 to me.

There are other issues as well, but this seems to be the most annoying.

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

Not the norm yet, but I think it's steadily drifting in that direction.

[iagor.livejournal.com]

I avoid that by having all my stuff in standard manuscript format. But the hard copy is easier to edit anyway.

[rugor.livejournal.com]

I know the one novel I submitted to Baen has been electronic all the way (except the hardcopy I used for editing). As to the current piece, that's one where I have Word set to exactly mirror manuscript format too. Here's hoping it works.

:)

[coolmajaka.livejournal.com]

Congrats! Can't wait to see it. And are you going to workshop the third book? I volunteer to be a first reader, considering I owe you quite a few crits :)

Congratulations!

[rsgarcia.livejournal.com]

It's such a great feeling to finish, isn't it? Must be even better when finishing means money ::Grin::

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I probably won't workshop the third book, because it's sold already. Unless I hit a serious snag and can't figure out how to fix it. THEN it might appear on OWW. *grin*

Re: Congratulations!

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

It is a great feeling. Although now book 3 is looming. And the worst part of writing for me is the beginning.