{"id":29622,"date":"2015-07-16T18:43:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T06:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=29622"},"modified":"2015-07-16T18:43:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T06:43:59","slug":"well-its-done-the-great-daughter-of-blood-copyedits-a-wrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/07\/16\/well-its-done-the-great-daughter-of-blood-copyedits-a-wrap\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, It’s Done: The (Great!) Daughter Of Blood Copyedit’s A Wrap!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“And” we haz a cover! (UK-Aus-NZ)<\/p><\/div>\n

‘Great’ as in 3 weeks and 3 days of unremitting slog, at any rate! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

And during that time I not only agonised over comma placement (yeah, “I know”), but (far more importantly) rumbled an important “time and geography” issue, rousted out a potential deus ex machina, and resolved innumerable small scale, but nonetheless important, matters of logic, and sense, and continuity, all of which seem to have consequentials (grrgh-aargh.)<\/p>\n

Not to mention patiently checking facts, both within my own creation, the Haarth world (more continuity), but also in terms of background research into a diverse range of areas, including weapons and warfare, different aspects of weather, and wounds, injuries and credible medical responses to the same. To name but a few.<\/p>\n

And I wrote one new chapter, which I have to say, I think is “brill”—i.e. it gave me quite a sense of satisfaction, because it not only adds to the overall coherence of this<\/em> book, but also better enables keeping a number of minor characters as a consistent—albeit still minor– plot\/character(s) thread running through the WALL series. So yahoo for that, say I. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

But, BUT, now ’tis done. I have not only logged out of the Chicago Manual of Style, but hope to stay logged out for some time. I have also closed down Merriam Webster’s Online Dictionary—although probably only very temporarily!<\/p>\n

But as I mentioned a few weeks back, the really cool thing about waving goodbye to the copyedit for Daughter Of Blood<\/em><\/strong>, is that:<\/p>\n

“…the copyedit is also the milestone after which I really feel freed up \u2014 to concentrate fully on the next book. In this case … that book is The Chaos Gate<\/strong> (working title), otherwise known as <\/em>The Wall Of Night<\/a>, Book Four.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

But first of all, a little bit of r’n’r to get my head out of Daughter of Blood<\/em><\/strong> before I really focus on The Chaos Gate<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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