In which we have news

[rolanni]

For those who have been waiting for the electronic release(s) of The Tomorrow Log and Dragon Tide, we have today learned that they will be bundled with the eArc of Fledgling which is due to hit Webscriptions, err, realsoonnow. Watch the skies.

We also learn that the (paper) ARCs and the galleys for Fledgling have landed, dern near simultaneously. ARCs should be going out to reviewers starting tomorrow, and the galleys will be coming right here to the Confusion Factory.

For those writers who read here -- how do you manage to read galleys while working on a writing project? Read 50 pages of galleys and then write for an hour? I read realllly slow (yeah, not a Writer Survival Skill), and I was kinda counting on the long weekend for some serious Mouse and Dragon action. Normally, in this kind of time-crunch, the galleys would fall to Steve, but! Steve's going to be gone for seven days, so -- it's my lap or nobody's.

In other news, music CDs have been burned, so Steve can have Noise on his drive down south. At the day-job, the professors are jumping ship as fast as they can leap, leaving me with a refrigerator that needs to be defrosted and cleaned, scheduling computer pickups, getting keys cut, and Other Thankless Tasks(TM). Which! Is why I get the big bucks.

Mozart is asleep in his rocker. Scrabble is on Steve's lap, chewing on his buttons. Hexapuma is declaiming in the hallway. Truly, we are Blessed.

Frost warning tonight. Yep. And a call for 81F on Thursday. Is this a great state or what?

Progress on Mouse and Dragon

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Comments

[1crowdedhour.livejournal.com]

For those writers who read here -- how do you manage to read galleys while working on a writing project?

I'm one of those "write first" people. Do the writing first and then proof the galleys. (In good light, because they kill my eyes.) (You probably know this already, but I find it helps me to start at the end of the galleys and work forward page by page.)

[lagilman]

For those writers who read here -- how do you manage to read galleys while working on a writing project?

I flail and panic, then do the proofs over coffee in the morning so it's Over and Done With (repeat as many mornings as possible until done).

[laurajunderwood.livejournal.com]

I tend to stop the writing at a point where I can easily pick up again (usually in the middle of a scene) and give the galleys the day or two of my attention it takes to go over them.

Am not one for letting them sit around because then I become freaked out about not making deadline...

OTOH, if they arrive in the middle of the week, they usually have to wait for the weekend when I can concentrate on them in one big burst and not be as interrupted.

Laura J. Underwood

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Glad it's going well! I don't even know what you're working on right now -- out of the pipeline since early April.

Warner always wanted galleys in like three days, which drove me nuts. HC was more reasonablde, but only a bit. I tried to perfect reading backwards/fowards each line. Still missed a few. But the worst one ever was added back in by typesetters after the last copy edit. Go figure.