urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire The Journal of Seanan McGuire Seanan McGuire 2008-08-04T14:44:40Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire:6863 2008-06-10T17:25:42Z 2008-08-04T14:44:40Z Jonathan Coulton, 'Still Alive.' Well, on May 29th, I <a href="http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/4028.html">started the major surgical adjustments to <i>A Local Habitation</i></a>, the second of the Toby Daye books. (I had actually started the revision process on April 13th. The fact that I can say this means that I really, really never throw anything away.) Yesterday, after lo these many hours of whacking my head against the keyboard and bemoaning the day I decided I wanted to be an author, I sent it off to my agent for review. Everybody dance!<br /><br />No, seriously. Everybody dance. I DEMAND A VELOCIRAPTOR DANCE PARTY.<br /><br />...okay, better.<br /><br />Since I am apparently incapable of extended periods of idleness, I have already started the revisions on <i>An Artificial Night</i>, aka, 'Toby Daye, book three.' I'm so super-excited about working on this book, there are no words. Although I'm also a little skittish. I was talking to Rey last night, and said I didn't know what I was going to do with myself after the trilogy had been turned into DAW (beyond waiting for editorial comments, of course). He looked at me funny. I guess the part where I'm writing at least three other books that he's aware of sort of made that statement sound a little odd...<br /><br />So now I'm happily hip-deep in <i>An Artificial Night</i>, still in that happy place where edits are new and exciting. They'll become a slog soon enough, but right now, everything is made of awesome.<br /><br />Dance!