{"id":44010,"date":"2026-08-17T06:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T18:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=44010"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:50:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:50:46","slug":"the-editors-notes-are-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2026\/08\/17\/the-editors-notes-are-here\/","title":{"rendered":"The Editor&#8217;s Notes Are Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which means, dear friends and readers, that it&#8217;s all-systems-go for <em>The Chaos Gate<\/em> edit, diving back into the manuscript, and &#8220;wrestling with the muse.*&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(*I believe the quote is &#8220;wrestling with the angel&#8221;, but muse feels more apposite.:) )<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26266\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26266\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26266\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Its-edit-time-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Its-edit-time-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Its-edit-time-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Its-edit-time.jpg 511w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yep, it&#8217;s time**<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Currently, to quote gaming parlance, I&#8217;m &#8220;in the tank&#8221; &#8212; working through the notes and the manuscript together, and getting my head fully in the game before actually changing anything. I&#8217;ve enjoyed the lull, but I&#8217;m excited to be getting into this next stage &#8212; which (I hope!) will end with what we&#8217;re waiting and longing for, which is the publication date.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36222\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36222\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36222\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/River-Ocean-Sky....jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/River-Ocean-Sky....jpg 200w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/River-Ocean-Sky...-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-36222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It may not be the end yet, but I can see it from here&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As always with an edit, I expect to be head-down and tail-up for some time, but I&#8217;ll certainly let you know when it&#8217;s done. Meanwhile, onwards!<\/p>\n<pre>** Tis all digital these days, of course --- tho' I still use print for my read-throughs.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which means, dear friends and readers, that it&#8217;s all-systems-go for The Chaos Gate edit, diving back into the manuscript, and &#8220;wrestling with the muse.*&#8221; (*I believe the quote is &#8220;wrestling with the angel&#8221;, but muse feels more apposite.:) ) Currently, to quote gaming parlance, I&#8217;m &#8220;in the tank&#8221; &#8212; working through the notes and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-about-what-im-doing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44010"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44014,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44010\/revisions\/44014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}