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| Posted by: Jessica |
Monday, October 07, 2002 |
Well, I just scraped under my 30th September deadline for A Whirlwind Engagement, emailing the finished draft to my editor at midnight on Sunday 29th. She then read it on the Monday night and it came back to me on Tuesday with some suggested revisions, so I didn’t get much time to relax! The manuscript needed quite a lot of work tightening up the first half, but I was expecting that, having had such a struggle with those chapters. They weren’t as bad as I’d thought, though, so that was something.
It took me a little while to get going on the revisions, but eventually I managed to cut great chunks of narrative and rewrite a few sections of dialogue, and the new version went off at midnight on Sunday again. I am really hoping that this will be the last I have to do on the whole trilogy! I have been longing and longing to finish it, and now that I have, I can hardly believe it. It seems to have been a year of relentless writing, and there were times when I was convinced that I just couldn’t do it any more. More professional authors deal with writing one book after another all the time, but I have found it really hard, and I can’t wait to do something different for a while. My next book isn’t due until the end of March, so I can spend some time now working on my thesis, so I won’t be lolling around wondering what to do with myself, tempting as that idea sounds!
Nor will I be able to forget about writing romance completely. I’ve already got the proofs of The Blind-Date Proposal to check, and that has to be done before I go down to London for a few days on Friday. I’m also giving a couple of talks in November, so will have to prepare something for those, but on the whole I should be able to relax a little on this front for a while.
In the meantime, look out for The Wedding Challenge - out in the UK in November (February in North America). For some reason, I haven’t had the paperback edition yet, but as soon as I do, I will try and set up a special page here to whet your appetite …
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