Tue, 15 Mar 2005
Back in the land of the living
So I finished checking the galley proofs of "Accelerando". I went
swimming, did a kilometre, then went home and put the galleys
in a box and nipped to the Post Office.
"Air mail to New York, please," I said, crossing my fingers.
"Oh, you're sixty-eight grams over the limit for a small packet.
It'll have to go as a regular parcel. That'll be thirty-three
pounds, please."
In the end I went to the local office supplies shop who FedEx'd
it for me with 48 hour delivery for not a lot more. Then I
emailed the extremely helpful editorial assistant to let her know
it was coming her way.
"Oh no! You didn't send the whole galley back, did you? We only
need the pages with changes!"
I reassured her that (a) I was indeed sending the entire 400 page
galley proof back, and (b) I was only sending her the pages that
needed changes.
When I can unkink my brain a little bit -- when I stop gasping
for breath -- I'll see if I can think of anything to say about
the book that I haven't already said at length. Let's just say
that the proofreading job was a nightmare and leave it at that
for now ...
In the meantime, if you're interested in bolting
together a website, you might want to check out Nvu. It's a cross-platform web
authoring program based off of the Mozilla framework -- sort of like a
grown-up version of FrontPage or DreamWeaver, only free, and with
versions for Linux and Mac users as well as Windows. I'm
probably turning it loose on my website soon (read: within the
next couple of months). I'm also looking hard at the possibility
of switching my blog over to WordPress now that I've got a
MySQL backed WordPress installation running in beta over at the Prattle.
Maybe it's time for me to wibble about the tools I use again?
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