Playing hooky while I should be working

[pbray]

Writing retreat going well-- I accomplished much this morning, until I found that there was wireless internet :-)

One of the other authors also brought her copyedits, so we are commiserating together. I've made a complete first pass through the manuscript and am overall extremely happy. The copyedits were light and the author queries will be fairly easy to handle.

I believe I get special bonus points for misspelling the very first word on the very first page. Though in my defense, that word was Acknowledgments, which I spelled as Acknowledgements, and that page was hastily added to the bundle right before I mailed it.

In other writing news, yesterday's mail brought the royalty check for the The Sword of Change series. DEVLIN'S LUCK was released five years ago this month. I'm humbled by the fact that it's still in print, still generating cash.

It's a nice reminder that I do know how to write, as I prepare to plunge back into the second pass of the copyedits.

Comments

[davidkeck.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on being treated with royalties. (May we all be so fortunate).

And, as far as "acknowledgements" is concerned, well, where I grew up (and in much of the rest of the world), you were right.

~Dave

Easter Traditions

[robinowenswrite.livejournal.com]

Yup, I'm an ear nibbler, too, and was known to sneak out younger bros' bunnies and munch their's too.

But our family (not a drop of Irish), has a tradition of making "nests" of the clothes the night before (children), where Easter Bunny knows to leave the basket of goodies.

Woops

[robinowenswrite.livejournal.com]

Posted to the wrong topic. Sigh.