The trouble of writing for 3 publishers & more
I’m happy I’m writing for three different publishers. I really am. I promise.
But damn, it hard. Especially when two sets of edits land on my desk at the same time.
It’s then that all of the little differences, the house styles, come into play. With one of my books, I have to change all of the chapter headings to words (3 to three). With the other, they were changed the other way. LOL.
One publisher softens the language, the other harshes it up.
And of course it’s not helping that the two books I’m editing are probably the two most opposite in both tone and content that I’ve ever written!!
Loving Fate is VERY emotional story taking place on Mount Olympus, complete with faeries, dragons and unicorns.
Double Jeopardy is a hard core futuristic complete with an ass-kicking heroine and twin brothers trying to escape from the island where they’re being held prisoner.
Confuse much?
Unfortunately, I’m starting to think that maybe I didn’t approach the edits the right way. I did all the easy stuff, changing words, reworking sentences, but now I have to do the hard stuff, the adding of whole scenes, long paragraphs of text.
But to do that I have to get myself in two very different moods!
Hey, totally off topic, but guess what I’m doing on Friday night? Yeah, I’m going to dinner with Jenny Crusie and Bob Meyer (this is when I wish I’d get aroundd to installing smiles)! They’re doing a workshop here in Maryland on Saturday and we’re (the MRW board) taking them out to dinner beforehand. Then Saturday evening I’ll get my hot little hands on a signed copy of Don’t Look Down. (Yes, I know it’s hardback and I’ve been ranting about expensive books, but if there’s every a reason to spend lots of $$ on a book, this has got to be it!)
Anyway, does anyone have any good plans for the weekend?
May 11th, 2006 at 11:36 am
Got my signed copy when they were in town a few weeks ago! Woo Hoo! And what a fun lady Miss Crusie is! They came to give several talks ay our annual book festival. She’s a laugh a minute and so sweet!
Hugs on the edits. But hey, doesn’t it sound good to get to say, “My three publishers…”? Just try to revel in that and not beat your head against the wall too hard with the edits :-)
May 11th, 2006 at 11:44 am
Ooh, so jealous! Have fun at the dinner, and take some painkillers for when your stomach aches from all the laughing…
May 11th, 2006 at 12:30 pm
Ohhhhhhhh, I’m so JEALOUSSSSS!!!
May 11th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Hi Emma!
I’m with April on this one - its got to be cool to say ‘my three publishers’! :-)
I also(which I thought was so ironic when you said it) ran into the brain switching thing last night. I’m doing the polishing on six months and came across a small(we’re talking maybe a pages worth of creating - not much) that needed to be done. But I’d been going through and doing the ‘thats’ and grammer stuff. I couldn’t for the life of me get my brain to switch. So I put if off for today. I’m going to start off with that here when I’m done visiting everyone and then hit the grammer thing. Much easier to switch the other way for me.
Have fun!
Cole
May 11th, 2006 at 5:28 pm
Hiya Ms Sin!
Oh how I feel for you and the edits…really I do. I had a futuristic, shape-shifter and a contemporary in New Zealand going at once - yes, my brain was fried, but you will come out the other side. Really, I know you will.
Hugs!
Tilly
May 11th, 2006 at 8:37 pm
I am push mowing the yard. Fun times…
Good luck with the edits.
May 12th, 2006 at 5:34 am
Good luck with those revisions and edits!! And have fun at dinner. :)