If your night is artificial, open the curtains already.
I have sign-off! Yes! Toby Daye, book three, An Artificial Night, is ready to ride the bullet train to my publisher's desk! (Note that this doesn't actually mean the book is in its final form, since DAW has the right to request changes and edits -- I made changes and edits to Rosemary and Rue after it had been turned in -- but I become a much happier bunny after it's slammed down on my editor's virtual desk.)
Final book stats:
111,304 words.
377 pages.
Twenty-three chapters.
The best part about finishing the finishing of a book (since even the finishing process can take several shots) is falling in love with it again. The revision process is sort of like cleaning a really messy house. When you're doing the heavy lifting, you pretty much hate the place and want to burn it down with a flamethrower. But when you're just going through the pretty, pristine rooms, wiping up those last smears of dust and straightening those last few books, well...
It's wonderful, because it's yours.
This book is wonderful because it's mine. Also because it's just a pretty rockin' book, all full of adventure and excitement and actual pie (and Toby being so very, very Toby that it hurts). And I have sign-off.
YAY.
Final book stats:
111,304 words.
377 pages.
Twenty-three chapters.
The best part about finishing the finishing of a book (since even the finishing process can take several shots) is falling in love with it again. The revision process is sort of like cleaning a really messy house. When you're doing the heavy lifting, you pretty much hate the place and want to burn it down with a flamethrower. But when you're just going through the pretty, pristine rooms, wiping up those last smears of dust and straightening those last few books, well...
It's wonderful, because it's yours.
This book is wonderful because it's mine. Also because it's just a pretty rockin' book, all full of adventure and excitement and actual pie (and Toby being so very, very Toby that it hurts). And I have sign-off.
YAY.