Mon, 03 Mar 2003
Reasons to be knackered, part one
Astute readers might wonder why I've been blogging lightly
lately. The answer is a priority clash. I have a deadline of
April 30th, by which time I have to hand over a finished draft
of a new SF novel to my editor at Ace. Ordinarily this wouldn't
be a problem -- it's already been through two drafts, and
although there's some restructuring in the pipeline, it would
be quite reasonable to get this done in a couple of months.
However, I'm also in the process of selling two huge fantasy
novels (in a series) to Tor, and for reasons too tedious to
go into here (but not entirely unconnected with marketing
schedules) my editor at Tor needed to get the edits nailed
down fast. Like, by the end of April. Meanwhile, I'm
waiting for the proofs of the first book from Ace to show
up any day now, which will need checking for typos within
a couple of weeks. And I'm having to fend off Cosmos Books
(who for some reason have decided to emit a hardback edition
of "Toast" -- next week), Golden Gryphon (copy edits to the
US edition of "The Atrocity Archive"), and Editions Robert
Lafont (French translation of ditto).
Well, I just emailed the final draft of "A Family Trade", complete
with David Hartwell's edits, to my agent. I'm going to give myself
24 hours to recover before I pick up the penultimate pre-submission
draft of "The Iron Sunrise" and start hacking at it. And if anyone
knows where I could buy an ACME DIY clone-yourself-kit, I'd be
very grateful for the pointer. Because after I get all these edits
nailed down, I have until the end of December to write another 190,000
word fantasy novel ...
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