stunnedStart date: September 4th, 2005.
End date: September 2nd, 2011.
Volumes: Three.
Words: 455,814.
Pages: An awful lot.
...so yeah. That happened.
Last night, at approximately 9:15PM, I finished processing the last of the editorial changes to Blackout, and kicked the manuscript off to The Agent for a final typo check. She kicked it back to me this morning, and at approximately 5:21AM, I finished correcting the last of the grammatical and typographical errors. The book is back with her for a final final check, and then it's off to The Other Editor, to begin the process of transforming into something you can read.
It's over.
I have other things to do in this universe, other stories to tell and to enjoy telling, but this story, this trilogy...it's over. I am finished with the Masons. Their tale is done.
I've never finished anything like this before. I feel a little numb and a little scalded and a little overwhelmed, all at once.
Thank you. Thank you to everyone who's read these books, recommended these books, loved these books, hated these books, or interacted with them in any way. Thank you to Michael and Amanda, Kate and GP, Spider and Steve, Alan and Jude, Brooke and Vixy and Bill and Mike and Rae and Sunil and Amy and Cat and...and...and everyone. Just thank you.
Thank you for helping me tell this story. I never could have done it on my own.
Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Thank you for helping me to rise up while I could.
September 3 2011, 21:09:26 UTC 5 years ago
I will start by saying I do not read horror novels. I do not like things with monsters and gore and creepiness, and stay as far away from them as I can. But my friends read Feed and Deadline and said, "Read these books, you'll love them." And I said, "Sure, maybe," to appease them because I do not read books with zombies in them. But my friends are sneaky things and gave me the books for my birthday a couple of months ago. Then I couldn't not read them, because that wouldn't be nice, so I figured I'd slog through them to be polite.
Well, it turns out that I do, in fact, read books about zombies if you write them, because I blazed through both books in the course of a weekend. And then when I was done, I went around telling my friends, my family, and sundry other people, "Read these books, you'll love them." So thank you for indirectly providing me with the best birthday present I've been given in a long time, and for expanding my horizons. I look forward to Blackout with complete confidence that I'll be saying the same thing about it.
September 6 2011, 15:07:07 UTC 5 years ago