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TINSEL RAIN Edits: Chapter 19.

Only one chapter, because I had to add some details to a particular character to make her work better. Well, I didn’t have to, but my editor made the suggestion and when she pointed it out to me I decided I agreed. Which is how about 90% of these suggestions go. Maybe 95%. I’m not really prone to temper tantrums over the inviolability of my deathless prose.

Still have two more from the current batch to do, then I just need to get the last three and the epilogue. Already have the book cover percolating away… shoot. I’m about to publish another novel! Huh.

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TINSEL RAIN Update: Chapters 17 and 18 edited.

I actually have edits for all the way up to Chapter 21 (there are 24 chapters in all, and an Epilogue), but I’m going to do the other three tomorrow. We’re at the stage of the book where I need to do more than just confirm copy-editing changes*, and that slows down the process. Still, TINSEL RAIN is very close to being edited!

Which is awesome. And also about to give me a lot more work, of the not entirely fun variety. But mostly awesome.

Moe Lane

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*Mostly observations about how a particular section should be tightened up, or how a character’s motivation isn’t completely ringing true. But I am getting a flattering lack of This book is terrible, and should be launched into the Sun, so I am not finding the feedback oppressive.

Caught up to Chapter 16 edits for TINSEL RAIN.

That’s basically two-thirds of TINSEL RAIN done. Far fewer edits for this than for FROZEN DREAMS, but the really complicated bits are yet to come, so: count no book finished until it is on remainder. …Okay, as epigrams go it doesn’t make perfect sense, but it’s still not too bad.

So far: the expectation is that the Kindle version will be ready for Balticon, and the print version for Fright Reads. Past that, it’s up in the air.

Moe Lane

#commissionearned

Caught up on TINSEL RAIN edits!

Huzzah! Now I can sit and glare at my computer screen in peace. Twitter’s decided this site is suspicious again, you see. So now I get to spend two weeks reporting every spurious report to their automated system, until a human finally notices the reports building up and checks. At least, that’s what I assume happens. Twitter never actually bothers to tell people why they do things, how to fix problems, or why they reverse their decisions.

And they wonder why they’re being bought out. …Serenity now, Moe. Serenity now.

Still, at least I got those chapter edits chewed through. About half done!

Up to Chapter 9 in TINSEL RAIN edits!

At this rate I shall be caught up… soon. Which is excellent: I had let the work pile up. At this rate, pretty soon I’ll need to get the paperback book cover for TINSEL RAIN put together. I tend to do them myself when it’s a chapbook*, but when it comes to the novels I let a professional handle things.

Moe Lane

*My chapbooks, in case you haven’t figured out, are exercises in frugality. I practice my editing on them myself, do layout and everything, and try not to spend any money outside of the art. Honestly, spending money on art is one of the unexpected perks of this entire authorial thing. It’s… affirming.

#commissionearned

Plugging along on the TINSEL RAIN edits.

A little behind on them, but much less than before. I kind of needed the weekend off, too. It’s important to be clear-headed.

At any rate, TINSEL RAIN is still on track to be released early. It probably won’t have physical copies for Balticon, but with any luck I’ll be able to have links to the e-book version. That will do. I certainly will have it for FrightReads… and I’ll need to think about whether I’ll have a new chapbook ready for then, as well. Keep watching the skies!

Processed three chapters’ worth of TINSEL RAIN edits in a row.

My brain hurts, but at least now I have a system in place to efficiently handle fixing up TINSEL RAIN. So far, the editor isn’t making me do anything too horrible. I am actually a bit of a pushover when it comes to my deathless prose: I take the position that if I’m paying somebody large sums of money to go over my work, surely that means that I should at least take their suggestions seriously. As long as the words reflect what I was trying to say, naturally.

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