In an attempt to kick myself into gear…

[annathepiper]

… I emailed agent Diana Fox, who y’all may remember I last approached this past fall regarding Lament, to ask her whether it’s still okay for me to submit the revised version of the manuscript to her for consideration. She says yes.

This means I am now setting myself the goal to not only finish the edit pass on the fourth draft but also get it beta-read before solarbird, spazzkat, and I head to Disneyland on the 9th. I have four more chapters and an epilogue to finish editing, and thankfully at this point, I think I’ve passed all the bits that need major surgery. So it should be down to a question of word count reduction.

Y’all consider this an early warning then that I’m going to need a beta reader or three to sanity-check this thing for me before I fire it off at Ms. Fox. The level of effort required here would simply be to read over the manuscript and make sure it hangs together coherently–since I’ll have killed 20,000 words out of it, and in some places significantly tweaked events, I’ll need to make sure all of these changes have made it an overall leaner and meaner story. Significant tweaking in particular has been done with Faanshi’s portrayal, trying to strengthen her as a character, and I need to make sure that works too.

General proofreading will also be welcome but not required.

So if anybody thinks they may have free cycles in the week or so before July 9th and will have time to chug through about 117K worth of novel, let me know!

Mirrored from angelakorrati.com.

Comments

[eveshka.livejournal.com]

/lifts hand

Willing to assist if needed!

[annathepiper]

Fabulous! Thanks in advance, and I'll post more when I'm done with edits and the draft is officially opened to beta.

[eveshka.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me.

[maellenkleth]

I will take up that challenge as being something good to pass the time on a five-hour flight from Toronto to Vancouver. Is July 2nd okay?

[annathepiper]

Already covered this on the MUSH, but for the record here as well, I'll know more about whether that date is good once I make more progress on the edits. Watch this space for updates.

[raise-a-jar.livejournal.com]

I should be able to give you a hand, no problem. Send it along or remind me where/how to find it.

[annathepiper]

Fabulous! Watch this space for further details!

(I forget how much of previous editions of the book you've read...? Did you read a whole previous draft or just initial chapters?)

[raise-a-jar.livejournal.com]

I read the whole thing. Twice? Three times? Was trying to proof and kept getting caught up in it and forgetting to make notes. LOL

[annathepiper]

Right on! So you'll be in a good position to tell me if this draft still hangs together. I hope. You should be able at least to tell me if the heavily altered Faanshi bits are working. *^_^*;;

[waterowl.livejournal.com]

Sure, happy to help.

[annathepiper]

Sweet, watch this space for further details. And now to actually advance the editing pointer a bit tonight before bed!

[annathepiper]

Thanks, and likewise! :)