Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: ecstatic
  • Music: Talis Kimberley, "One Big Sea."

It's one long ache while I wait and wait...

Behold! For now I wear the human pants! I have processed all machete squad and agent notes on One Salt Sea, gone through the book end-to-end to make sure everything still makes sense, returned it to The Agent, and made final tweaks based on her commentary. Now it's finally off to have a nice nap on The Editor's desk while she's in Australia, which means a) I made my deadline, and b) I can finally get to work on Ashes of Honor.

The current book stats:

Pages, 420.
Words, 113,912.
Chapters, thirty-five.
Diet Dr Pepper consumed, probably equivalent to Loch Ness.

Despite vicious trimming and dropping several sub-plots, One Salt Sea still wound up fifty pages/almost 7,000 words longer than Late Eclipses, because frankly, there's a lot of shit going on, and very little of it is "padding" in any sense of the word. Toby has matured a lot from where I first met her, in the short story that pre-dated Rosemary and Rue, and it shows. I've matured a lot as a writer, and that shows, too. This book is so much better than I expected it to be, and I'm so excited to have The Editor turning it into something even more awesome.

In conclusion...

...DINO DANCE PARTY!
Tags: dino dance party, one salt sea, toby daye, turning it in
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talis_kimberley

November 29 2010, 16:18:05 UTC 6 years ago

Oh, my dear Seanan... wonderfully well done.

...and one salt sea to drown in? Be sure I'll be reading. Thank you for all the fine and wonderful things you bring to the world.

seanan_mcguire

November 29 2010, 16:30:14 UTC 6 years ago

The symmetry was too much to deny. Also, there are parts of the book where, if it were a film, "One Big Sea" is all that could possibly be playing over the scene.

Thank you, for much the same.