Thursday, November 23, 2006
It is done
But who really cares?
How many months is it now with no real news?
How many months of self indulgent clap trap?
Even the most ardent of fans must be reading Anya's blog and thinking "There's no news here!"
Mind you, there is no story now.
Not until the publicity train hoves into view............
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Speaking as an occaisional author myself (check out amazon.co.uk if you don't believe me :-)), I find it very hard to believe that any publishing house, much less one the size of Harper Collins, would accept a **handwritten** text, or even a typed one. Impossible, actually: my own publishers, Omnibus/Music Sales, stipulated the book be submitted on floppy as long ago as 1997 ! WS has had access to computers since February this year, so why handwrite the damn thing ?
"weeks, yet of fine-combing through it all — adding and subtracting and whatever else goes into the next stage"
Actually, no - if you're any good, you hand in something that's as edit-proof as possible. You edit, revise and expand as you go along. The idea is to deliver what **you** want published.
Once again, it doesn't add up. None of it.
Thanks for the update "Andy".
I'm sure that those of a romantic nature would prefer the mental image of our much unloved heroine toiling over parchment and quill by candlelight than busying herself with MS Word.
After all, it's the image she's trying to sell which has considerable more value than the substance.
Great Big Crayola Hugsssss.....
Anya Peters
The Peoples Author
We're getting the picture all right!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/6172788.stm
".it's finished...out there...being chewed, and heavily scribbled, over by my editor, in green ink."
Or, more likely, said editor is either rolling on the floor of their office wetting themselves laughing... or beating their head repeatedly against the desktop. Once they've stopped doing these things, I'm pretty sure they'll be emailing Andrew Crofts post haste.
Or filing the manuscript in the nearest waste paper bin.
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