Tag Archives: Editorial Pursuits
Novellablog: Final Revision Stats, Briefly Stated in a Rambly Manner
This is not going to be my most elegant blog post. Mainly I want to write this down so that I can stare at it in an hour when Nathan gets home from work and I wake up from fugue state and wonder where the hell my day went. I am surfacing only briefly; I have, however, wolfed down my late lunch (note: it’s after 6pm in Brooklyn) in ten minutes rather than the twenty minutes I promised myself I [...]
Novellablog, BEA Edition: My Beautiful Advance Copies and the Grammatical Error on Page One
First of all, LOOK AT THE PRETTY!! Beth at McNally Jackson took my PDFs of The Kairos Mechanism‘s book text and front matter and laid them out all sorts of pretty. Then, since I won’t have Andrea Offermann’s cover illustration until about mid-July, Erin at McNally made a basic cover from my title page (the back cover has the disclaimer on it about this being an advance copy and to check all quotes against the final text). Then, ten minutes [...]
Novellablog: Editorial Dilemma: Listen to the Adults or the Kids?
Short post today, because I have other things to devote my considerable freaking-out-energy to, but remember how I was having a panic attack about potential editorial mistakes I could make? Here’s one I’m stressing about right now. Give me your thoughts. I’ve now heard from five of the six Kid Editors. I’ve also heard from four critique mates and my husband. Most of the comments have been consistent: I need to spend a bit more time making sure that things [...]
Novellablog: Kid Editors: Because the kid in the room understands your book better than you do.
Remember that post I wrote about how I can’t be trusted to edit my own stuff? Well, last week it was time to send The Kairos Mechanism to the last and most critical set of readers before I send it to the critmate who’s acting as uber-editor. These are the Kid Editors: Emma, Luci and Edie, Mason, and the newly-deputized Julia and Talia. Their mission: make sure I’m not going to embarrass myself by putting this book up in front [...]
Novellablog: Dear Kate, Organize or Else. Love, Your Future Books.
With great reluctance, it’s time I admit that it’s become evident to me that I will have to get organized. A girl can only double-check so many times whether a character’s cane has an alligator’s head or a crocodile’s head for a handle before she has to face the fact that she’s wasting her own time. I have, therefore, again with great reluctance, begun to assemble a Binder. In the same way that I don’t willingly write synopses, I also [...]
Novellablog: Yes, You Can Edit Your Own Work, but You Will Probably Frack It Up.
It will not surprise my nerd audience that I’m watching Battlestar Galactica as I write this. But that’s neither here nor there. We are now progressing into the portion of this series I like to call From Beta Readers to Copyeditors; In Which Kate Panics About the Editing Process. Here’s a list of things I am worried about with this project: 1) Finishing the novella. (April Kate checking in: done and done.) 2) Raising the money. (June Kate, did you [...]
Adventures in the SFWA: My Efforts to be an Informed Nebula Voter
It’s Awards Season! Yes, I’ll be watching the Oscars this weekend, but I’m not really talking about that. March is voting month for members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). In May, the organization will present Nebula Awards to one exceptional short story, novelette, novella, and novel; the Bradbury Award to one film, and the Andre Norton Award to a young adult novel. Last November, on the suggestion of a couple very nice gentlemen I met [...]
The Boneshaker: A List of Seriously Cool Stuff that’s in This Book
Velocipedes, patent medicines, phrenology, Winton motorcars, blues, psychotic harlequins, snake oil salesmen, electroshock, automata, an Edgar Allan Poe-quoting fortune-teller, and a contest of skill played at the crossroads against the Devil. You’re wondering now, what is this list of weird, cool stuff? It’s a list–a very partial list, mind you; it isn’t even a complete list–of weird, cool stuff in The Boneshaker. At long last, things are happening. The book comes out in four months, and I’m starting to get [...]
Saturday in Bay Ridge: Cover Art, Knee Surgery, and OMG VanderMeer!
Jacket art’s up for THE BONESHAKER in all its bright red glory! Have a look at Andrea Offermann’s beautiful cover! The crazy redhead in the middle is Doctor Jake Limberleg, proprietor of Limberleg’s Nostrum Fair and Technological Medicine Show (an event not to be missed once it rolls into town on May 24th of next year and wreaks havoc in a small Missouri town called Arcane). I discovered the cover image had gone up because someone I don’t know contacted [...]
Gingerfoot, the edits…sigh…
It’s day four, and it’s 3:27. I really should be done by now. Granted, there’s been plenty of procrastination going on; I’ve updated the entire NBTC website at nagspeake.com; all that’s left to do is add the photography back in. I’ve updated my notes at The Expat. I spent yesterday evening following Annabelle Bechamel’s Twitter commentary on Brown/Faber 2. I even attempted to make the random drink she mixed while Jens Pulver got himself guillotined in the first minute of [...]
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