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I'd planned to spend the weekend reading the entries to the Hard Jed contest but hadn't been able to because of roofing work in Orlando. So give me a couple of days before announcing the winner, 'kay? Since they were all so good (and funny!) when I went through them the first time, I want give each of the entries proper attention!
Today is going to be filled with must-do activities. I have to rewrite some of the back blurb for Virtually Hers because I didn't quite like the second paragraph. I also have to work quickly to get the final FINAL edits for VHers back to my editor. It's mostly more a matter of making sure certain inconsistencies are corrected.
Like I mentioned on Facebook, it appeared that I've become the Hyphen Queen while working on this book. Not only that. Apparently, I also never noticed things like Super Soldier Spy or Supersoldier Spy or Super Soldier-spy or Super Soldierspy as I wrote, rewrote, revised, and edited this story a 1000 times these past years.
Copy editors are wonderful people because they notice these things, and point them out, and ask questions about connections, and make me wonder whether I even know the first book of the series ;-). Anyway, it's just startling how I just write and write and write and not care about details like...oh, SymBios 2 or SymBios II or Sym-bio Two, even during my own rereading process! I suck.
And, to make things even More Thrilling, tomorrow is the deadline for certain tax filings for my business and...oh, why bore you with details of running numbers and head-desking numerous times through the day? I just live on the edge of excitement, that's all.
So. Monday begins.
I shall breathe in. Breathe out. And get everything done!!!!!! Wish me luck. Hope your Monday is not quite so exhilarating.
Tomorrow, remind me to tell you a bit about Catch McMillan, whom the heroine calls Cat. ;-)
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5 comments:
Another McMillan? And not name Stevie or Stephanie? What's up?
Alund,
Of course his name is Steve ;-), just as Hawk was also a Steve.
My apologies to Steve "Cat" McMillan. For some reason I thought Cat was a McMillan girl's nickname. Wouldn't that be something...a McMillan girl soldier spy named Stephanie or Stevie. What about it?
Alund,
I know. Being called Cat by the heroine really, really annoys our Steve.
The males of the McMillan family compromised their odd "custom" by giving their women the freedom to name their girls. Many, for some reason, have not chose "Stevie" or "Stephanie." I don't know why!
Well I hope your week is going better. As a business owner I can tell you I hate crunching numbers, so I hand over all my paperwork to my handy-dandy CPA and walk away.
I hope the weather is not too terrible down in the Sunshine State, you can always come up to the Great White North and go to Broadway with me :D.
So waddaya say Ms Hyphenator?
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