urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire The Journal of Seanan McGuire Seanan McGuire 2010-12-18T03:18:31Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire:257016 2010-07-26T22:19:55Z 2010-12-18T03:18:31Z OVFF 2005, "Phantoms of Summer." Behold! For now I wear the human pants! I have finished processing the editorial notes on <i>Late Eclipses</i>, gone through the book end-to-end to make sure everything still makes sense, and finished processing the corrections in Vixy's gloriously detailed machete file. Then I packed it a lunch and sent it off to play with the Machete Squad, who will doubtless hack it to hell before it gets to go back to The Editor for the final time.<br /><br />The current book stats:<br /><br />Pages, 369.<br />Words, 107,372.<br />Chapters, thirty-seven.<br />Cans of DDP, oh, wow, I cannot tell you.<br /><br />I'm finally happy with this book. It's in a very awkward position, because book four is sort of where you get to say "here's when shit gets real," and make people stop treating you like you're writing a trilogy (which I never was). It's a transition book, and it follows <i>An Artificial Night</i>, which is still my favorite in the series. But it's also better than I ever dreamt it would be, and I'm so thrilled to have watched it grow into something wonderful.<br /><br />In conclusion...<br /><br />...DINO DANCE PARTY!