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It will not surprise my nerd audience that I’m watching Battlestar Galactica as I write this.
But that’s neither here nor there. We are now progressing into the portion of this series I like to call Here’s a list of things I am worried about with this project: 1) Finishing the novella. (April Kate checking in: done and done.)2) Raising the money. Then, right on schedule, (I KNOW!!) 1) Without running the agent/editor gauntlet, how do I actually know this thing is any good?
I had already decided I needed to have someone else copyedit the manuscript. We all make mistakes. All of these things get fixed because someone other than me looks at the manuscript in a particular way. And yet. A page from the revised final draft of Ellen Raskin's THE WESTING GAME. The last time I got a manuscript back from my editor at Clarion, it was prefaced by an email that said (I am not paraphrasing), “Great job, Kate! What would it look like if she thought the manuscript quote-needed work-unquote?