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.
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.
posted by Carolyn @ 6/10/2006 06:24:00 PM Permalink
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.
And, hey, now you've shown yourself as someone who not only makes a deadline, but makes it early.
I lost two whole weeks of obsessing and polishing! Why, I could still be freaking out instead of doing whatever.
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.
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.
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?
No need to apologize at all. That's probably one of those things I'll change anyway.
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