Today I received copy edits for my October historical Indiscreet so I'll have to keep this post short.

More birthday bash celebrating going on. Tomorrow is the big day! And speaking of tomorrow, here's a picture of today's prize:



These are 4 lovely handmade (not by me!) glass coasters. To have a chance to win these, leave a comment on this post about .... um .... Heh. Answer this question:

You have a million dollars to spend, but you can't spend it doing good deeds and you can't put it in a savings account or anything virtuous like that. You must spend it selfishly on yourself. How would you go about spending it?

Usual rules, if you don't leave me a way to contact you, you must commit to checking back here around May 1, 2009, to see if you won.

Go.

Labels: Birthday bash, contests, copyediting

I'm sitting here at Starbucks doing day job work. Right now files are transferring and I can't do anything until that's done. So here I am!

I've finished the copyedits for Scandal. I just have to make copies of the MS then get it into the mail. Now I'm starting in on the revisions for His Wicked Witch

All done with the day job stuff... Bye!

Labels: copyediting, His Wicked Witch, Revisions, Scandal

Just a quick post. As many of you probably know, RWA has its national conference in San Francisco July 30 to August 2. Which is soon. Really soon. (Yay!)

I have the copyedits for Scandal (due date: July 31) Snort. Real drop dead last day: July 28, because I head down there the 29th since the Beau Monde Conference is the 30th.

Today I got the revision letter for His Wicked Witch or whatever it ends up being called. Argh! I've only given it a quick glance to make sure I wasn't being asked to write a completely different book. No. Very good, there!

And, of course there's the WIP and today I didn't get a chance to work during lunch because I worked through lunch which means 0 words today. Panic is setting in.

Right so I'm really busy and may not be blogging too much between now and July 29 when I will be blogging and twittering the conference. Hopefully on my iPhone...

For now, I'll be twittering more reliably than blogging because that's easier, shorter and faster than blogging. Also you can't get carried away and keep writing some big old longer than you intended post.

In Carolyn's perfect world copyedits and revisions are done by July 28.

Wish me luck.

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Labels: copyediting, His Wicked Witch, Revisions, RWA Nationals, The List

My son's soccer tournament last weekend was postponed due to the storms. (We had the chainsaw out so yeah, it stormed) This weekend they're moving all our games because our scheduled field is closed due to storm damage. Now I'm scrambling to cancel hotels, reserve at a new one, find out where we're going when...

And, the copy edits arrived for My Wicked Enemy today. Very light, but I have a few things marked to go over in detail later. Tonight I'm just marking... I have a page of queries to address. I guess not till Monday unless I decide to take the MS with me, which I don't want to do (What if I lose it?) But it seems my big problem is commas, mostly the lack thereof, and hyphenating or not hyphenating words. Seriously, that's 98% of the copy edits.

And I saw the rough image of the cover today. It's pretty awesome, I have to say.

I'm now behind on Xia because last night I went to bed at 7:40pm. I read for a bit, but pooped out before 9:00. Tired girl.

Off to work.

Labels: Book Covers, copyediting, life in general, Xia