Thu, 29 Sep 2005
Wurk.
I have just vetted the copy edits for "The Clan Corporate", the
next book in the Merchant Princes series. Why is it
that, given a 95 page batch of pages to scan, my HP flatbed
scanner will work perfectly until page 92, then gulp down the
last three pages and jam, losing all memory of the preceding pages in
the process?
No, don't answer that.
I'm also on the final read-through of "The Jennifer Morgue",
before I had the manuscript in. That'll leave next week clear for
getting my accounts filed and writing the afterword to TJM, at
which point I'll have a clear desk, right before I head off to Octocon in Maynooth.
A clear desk -- there's something unnatural about it. I'll have
finished everything I've currently got on my to-do list,
and be into a brief period of aimless indirection, before I have
to start the next book. It feels weird. Usually there's
one overlapping job or another. (Probably there'll be an
overlapping job: I've got a feeling Ace are likely to drop the
hammer on me in the form of the copy edits to "Glasshouse" the
day before I head off to Ireland. But it hasn't happened ...
yet.)
Anyway, that's why I've been quiet lately: I'm busy trying to
nail down a bunch of loose work-related ends in time to take some
time off before I dive back into the job.
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