For those of you tracking us through the publishing journey, we are now two thirds of the way through the copy edits. That’s when the revised manuscript comes back having been edited by someone trained to find all the grammar and punctuation mistakes along with continuity and factual errors and anything else we screwed […]

Yep, we’re done, THANK GOD, and I love it, too. And then Jen e-mailed us and said,
“I need a wonderful, pithy copyline for the front cover of THE UNFORTUNATE MISS FORTUNES (and we’ll have something to show you soon on the cover, so stay tuned). What would be a good copyline, leading into […]

Now it’s my turn. Krissie sent the manuscript to me, then I put in the stuff I needed to and forwarded it to Jenny. And, again–and Krissie’s right;it better be the last time–I’m finished. All three of us are also going over for continuity things(Krissie had to change Venice to Toledo, Spain among other […]

You heard that before, right? One last go round last night and this morning, and we’re finished. The way we work, Jenny keeps the master version because she’s a) smarter b) more energetic or c) she’s a glutton for punishment. Every time she sends me a new final version of the mss. I have to […]

So there I was in my lovely hotel room in Matera, Italy where I was speaking at the International Women’s Fiction Festival, and the owner, who advertised that he had wi-fi, pointed to the ethernet plug in the wall–to which, of course, I had no cable. Then I looked for internet cafes, which were open–only […]