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What is in my head!
#4 - 20th Jan 2010 18:49:05
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That was a week ago - how many have died since then?Perhaps there was a build up to a major dramatic scene where many meet their end? I'm on my last 20,000 words and generating a logical and scientifically based conclusion using multiple sources and research is equally challenging - but it is happening. Plus - I am more than sure that yours will be much more exciting and satisfying. Yours are the only books I am allowed to read before teaching resumes - always a pleasure. 
#6 - 22nd Jan 2010 21:05:16
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Woohoo... sounds like the back of brain is working better than fine for you and things are moving along very nicely - I bet the next 5k to 10k words will be brilliant and come together as they always do - can't wait to see what they all prompt you to consider as a fate for them. I bet it will surpise them more than you.
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Well.....(I'm wincing because I don't think you'll be thrilled).....September for Australia, October for Britain, December for US and around March next year for the European translations roll out.
Just remember, these are not my schedules. The publishers control when books are released, not authors. But in HarperCollins' defence, let's say it gets this manuscript around mid-Feb once I've had a chance to read it through and submit a nice clean draft. The editors need to read it and make their first raft of suggestions from all English speaking markets. It comes back to me and I start to prepare draft 2. That goes back to one editor who then starts to work on the all important structural and copy edits. Back to me for draft 3, possibly draft 4. Then we do the next set of edits - this is called the line edit where each word is scrutinised. Back to me for approvals. Where are we....5th draft? Then we do what we hope are the finals....when proofreaders go to work and I go to work again on it and so does my editor. We have a 6th draft if we're lucky and hopefully final...into galleys for the all important 7th and absolute sign off copy.
Imagine all those people, all those drafts, all that to-ing and fro-ing across countries. It takes time...months to co-ordinate and work throug all of those various steps. And then you have to get the whole thing printed, bound, distributed to booksellers up and down the various countries. That process alone can take six weeks and in amongst all that is cover design, end pages to be designed and sorted, etc.
Nothing happens quickly in publishing because of all the individual drafts. The publisher wisely prefers up to a year from the moment the first draft is submitted. For King's Wrath, because of my time schedule, HC is going to pull it all together in six months.
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