The trouble of writing for 3 publishers & more
Thursday, May 11th, 2006I’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?


