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Saturday, June 10, 2006

Done

The Rake proposal is done. I'm getting it ready to send to my agent on Monday. I've posted the new Chapter 1.

I found out today that the contractual due date for DX was June 15 AND that the contractual word length was 15-25k words. As dedicated readers of this blog may recall (that would me, um, me?) I worked under the assumption that the delivery date was June 1 and the word length was 15-20K. Both of those true facts would have been incredibly helpful to know BEFORE I finished the stupid thing. I could have expanded the vampire story line a bit. Not that it matters any more. I calculated my daily word count based on the information I had at the time, but I asked twice if the due date was June 1 and never heard different. Whatever. I like the way DX came out.

So that's pretty much that. I went to the book store and bought more books.
Comments:
Good luck on the Rake.

And, hey, now you've shown yourself as someone who not only makes a deadline, but makes it early.
# posted by Blogger Megan Frampton : Sat Jun 10, 07:37:00 PM PDT
 
I lost two whole weeks of obsessing and polishing! Why, I could still be freaking out instead of doing whatever.
# posted by Blogger Carolyn : Sun Jun 11, 07:56:00 PM PDT
 
A request: would it be possible to not mention the size of the heroine's breasts? 90% of the time it's mentioned the breasts are small (did JAK start this convention?). It's almost ecome the "small-breasted women are worthy of love/lust too" cliche. Trust me to know that no matter how big or small they are, the heroine will feel they are the wrong size and will be self-conscious when the hero looks at her chest. My apologies for being so nitpicky, and I promise to read the book whether this detail remains or not, but for some reason it's become one of those things that pulls me out of the story -- my problem, I know, but thought I'd ask.

OTOH, I think the new first chapter sets up the plot and relationships more clearly than the original -- the reader is now immediately immersed in the who and what.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : Mon Jun 12, 10:21:00 AM PDT
 
The comment above was mine (didn't mean to be anonymous), and I'd like to apologize. Way too petty and unworthy of your time. It is, after all, your book. Clearly there's some OCD aspect of my personality, or else why do I spend so much time thinking about descriptors and other minutiae?
# posted by Anonymous Susan K : Tue Jun 13, 02:02:00 PM PDT
 
No need to apologize at all. That's probably one of those things I'll change anyway.
# posted by Blogger Carolyn : Tue Jun 13, 05:19:00 PM PDT
 
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