I heard from my editor yesterday that she loved the changes I made to HUNGER in the line editing phase, and so the manuscript has been sent on to copy editing. **happy dance**

So here’s where we are in the HUNGER production cycle, roughly speaking:

Write manuscript
Sell manuscript to publisher
Editor sends revision letter to me for review
Revise manuscript & send to editor
Editor sends line edited manuscript to me for review
Incorporate line edits and tackle any outstanding/new issues & send to editor
Editor approves manuscript & sends to copy editing
Editor sends copy edited manuscript to me for review
Accept or don’t accept (called “stetting”) every single change flagged by copy editing & make any final content changes & return to editor
Manuscript produced as galley proofs
Unproofed advance reading copies sent to reviewers, booksellers, etc.
Galleys proofread & sent to me for review
I proofread the galleys & return to editor
I wait impatiently patiently for reviews to be submitted
I wait impatiently patiently for my author copies to arrive
Have a bunch of contests with HUNGER given away as the prize
HUNGER hits the shelves!!! <— FALL 2010

So there’s a while to go. But I’ll be blogging (promise) and launching Post Mortem (shortly) and Tweeting (Twittering?) and MySpacing (if that’s a verb) and probably also creating a new Facebook page (because I’m insane).

Until then, well, there are books to be read. And written.

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