June 27, 2005
I Think the PC Term is "Personuscript"
My editor sent back my manuscript on Friday, thankfully with a minimal amount of changes and a fair amount of praise. Even more exciting than opening up a PDF version of the book's cover was opening up an envelope filled with over 200 pages of my manuscript. I had only ever seen the book as a file on my computer - and burned onto a CD, and saved on a flash memory stick, and emailed to three different addresses so I wouldn't lose the whole thing if one form of technology broke down - so seeing it in all its paper glory was also a lot of fun.
I have until July 5th to incorporate the changes and send it all back to Harper Collins. I'm not exactly sure what happens after that, although there is still the matter of finalizing the cover and I'm sure one of these days we'll start talking about marketing and publicity. Some exciting things are already in the works, so stay tuned.
Posted by Doug at June 27, 2005 10:21 AMHere's another for your collection
http://home.comcast.net/~flinspach/pictures/till_death_do_us_part.jpg
Tell the mktng dept. to get you on the Today show. You'd be better than wacky Tom Cruise. And don't they do a wedding every year?
Posted by: Jack at June 27, 2005 06:44 PMYay, there's life after Millionaire! (If you haven't heard, I'm also living "life after Millionaire" having not been asked back after all these years. So far I'm exhilarated contemplating the possibilities, including retirement but more likely doing more book editing.)
Posted by: Ellen at June 27, 2005 10:56 PM