Feelin' groovy

[jenniferechols]

I just arrived home from a week at the beach, and what should be waiting for me on my front doorstep but a big box o' Major Crush! A year ago yesterday, I was winding up a week-long vacation at the same beach when nephele called me to say she'd received the first offer on the book. For this reason, I will always love July. :)

Erin Downing, whose book in

Comments

Congratulations!

[brandie_writer]

Oh, how exciting!!! I can see how reading it now would be hard. I think writers, visual artists, and musicians can never truly appreciate their own work. So we will all appreciate Major Crush for you!

[jenniferechols]

Ha! That is so sweet! I hope you really do enjoy it.

[carriejones]

Welcome back and congratulations! You must have AMAZING will power to not read it. Wow. I want to be like you...vacation at the beach, a box of my books and MASSIVE MASSIVE will power.

[jenniferechols]

Vacation at the beach, check! Box of books, check! Will power...*cough*

[ex_fashioni]

Congratulations!! Isn't that just the coolest feeling??

And I'm not sure about Erin's advice-- on the one hand, yes, I can see the wisdom.

On the other hand, it can be like it was for me where I wound up finding a bunch of stuff that some overeager copyeditor changed after I signed off on the galleys.

So I saw it for the first time in the finished book.

(It was all in the Spanish language, so this probably isn't something that happened to you... *g*)

Congrats again! I can't wait to get my copy at the Literacy Signing!

[jenniferechols]

Oh no, how irritating! And I can totally see this happening. I did have two Italian words in Major Crush (don't ask, long story), and my copyeditor changed them. Turns out we were both wrong, but luckily I have an Italian critique partner who corrected us before press. ;)

I was going to get my copy of Adios at the Literacy Signing, too! What are we going to do, throw them across the room to each other? Something tells me the authors signing there are also the biggest buyers. :)

YAY!!!

[nikiburnham]

Yay on getting that fabulous box!

As for reading your own books...I don't do it if it's the finished (as in, unchangeable) product. I figure that, at best, it's going to be just as I imagine it. At worst, I find a ton of errors and get agitated. I can't do it to myself!

[jenniferechols]

Hey Niki--let me ask you something that victoriadahl and I were wondering the other day about multi-published authors. Do you get to a point where you are not freaking out over every step of publication, hanging on your agent's every word, etc.? Are you able to concentrate on the WIP and sort of forget whether you've seen the first pass of this book or the copyedit of that book? Or does the process remain this intense and distracting?

Getting that box

[nikiburnham]

The process is always intense and distracting. BUT...I think the more books you have in production, and the more years you do this, the less you let little things get to you (so it does get better on that front!)

[janajoh]

I cannot WAIT to get this book!!! Too bad it'll be released after RWA or I'd be able to get mine signed by the fab author (unless you're coming to TN for a book signing.....)

[nephele]

Actually, she's signing copies at the literacy signing on Wednesday at RWA, so you can definitely get yourself an autograph...

[janajoh]

I'm only coming to the TKA par-tay then I'm heading back home. :(

Believe me, I would LOVE to stay for the entire shin-dig....