{"id":29531,"date":"2015-07-03T06:30:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T18:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=29531"},"modified":"2015-07-02T23:17:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T11:17:33","slug":"a-supernatural-underground-riff-when-a-book-is-really-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/07\/03\/a-supernatural-underground-riff-when-a-book-is-really-done\/","title":{"rendered":"A Supernatural Underground Riff … When A Book Is “Really” Done"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Supelogo_2\"<\/a>As you know, the 1st of every month is when I post on the Supernatural Underground<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Being under the copyedit hammer right now, this month’s post<\/a> focused on that—not surprisingly, perhaps, since both my blog and the Supernatural Underground are writers’ blogs!<\/p>\n

One might say, in fact, that posting about what’s happening in the writing life stands to reason. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

However, I did<\/em> mention a few other things…<\/p>\n

…like a whisper, among the hedgerows, that my USA and UK covers for Daughter Of Blood <\/b><\/i>may be revealed Very Soon. [Claps hands!]<\/p>\n

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To Come: “The Chaos Gate”<\/p><\/div>\n

And that although there is a proofing round yet to come (the “first pass proof”) the copyedit is really the author’s last major round in terms of working on a book.<\/p>\n

It’s always the point (when finished) at which I feel: yep, this particular book is really<\/em> done. In story terms, it’s a wrap.<\/p>\n

Conversely, concluding the copyedit is also the milestone after which I really feel freed up — to concentrate fully on the next<\/em> book. In this case, as mentioned on the Supernatural Underground, that book is The Chaos Gate<\/em><\/strong> (working title), otherwise known as The Wall Of Night<\/a>, Book Four.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And as we all know, The Wall Of Night Book Four<\/strong> is also the final<\/em> book in the WALL series.<\/p>\n

So next time I do a copyedit, I won’t just be saying it’s a particular book<\/em> that’s really done; I’ll be calling it a wrap on a series.<\/p>\n

However, that day is still quite some way off yet. (Think Aragorn at the Black Gate: “Not This Day”!)<\/p>\n

So in the meantime I’ll be sticking to my knitting and staying focused on getting to the moment when I can say that the copyedit for Daughter Of Blood<\/em><\/strong> is a wrap.<\/p>\n

In an update on that, at present I’m just over 70% through the manuscript.<\/p>\n

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