Almost a book ...
As I write this, my ebook about Cuba, entitled Vultures Overhead, is with the copy editor. But by the time this post is published on the Authors Electric blog, I'll have the manuscript back and know the worst - or the best. The first time I let a copy editor loose on anything I bit my nails and wept into my pillow as I waited for it to come back. Would she like it? Not like it? Would it be so covered with alterations my words would be unrecognisable? (All those days waiting for exam results came flooding back.) I think I'm a little more sanguine now. For it doesn't matter whether the copy editor likes it or not - as long as she does her job. I know I can be a bit dash-happy, and she'll sort some of those. She'll find any mis-spelled place names (I'm ashamed how many of those I send her). She'll stumble over clunkiness because she'll see what I've actually written and not what I think I've written. Even so, these are waiting days. I'v...