I've been remiss in not mentioning this to my f-list before, but if you're looking for a thoughtful and consistently updated blog about Christianity and Speculative Fiction, with a good variety of reviews, essays and talk about the craft and business of writing SF for the Christian market, Speculative Faith is a good place to start ( Read more... )

My third round of revisions on Knife, the Hunter are DONE. It took a phone call to my editor to be sure I understood what the problems were and got some ideas on how to fix them, but once we'd talked that through, making the changes wasn't nearly as difficult as I'd feared ( Read more... )

My husband is a wonderful person and I will love him until the day I die ( Read more... )

I received my second round of revisions on Knife today, with a few more suggestions for clarifying and streamlining the plot, plus line-by-line edits. The letter was six pages long, and the manuscript was marked up on nearly every page. Eep ( Read more... )

As of 10:00 p.m. EST tonight, my revisions on Knife are DONE.

I plan to hang onto this draft for a couple more days at least, but by the end of the week it will be in my editor's hands. Huzzah!

As you can no doubt tell by the generally profound silence on this blog of late, I have been working very hard on my first set of editorial revisions since I got them in mid-December.*

( It's been a lot of work, but I think it's going well )

So here I am about to prepare my mid-revision lunch, and I'm holding a heavily pre-buttered piece of garlic bread in my hand and looking at the toaster ( Read more... )