Oh look, something else to read...

[desperance]

I've just had the edit of my "Lost World" abridgement back, for my once-over. I wouldn't care, perhaps, but it is going to have my name on it, so apparently I do.

At least (I'm told) it's a really light edit. Which is pleasing, because it means I got the voice right, more or less. I can still do literary ventriloquy. And at least they've done it themselves, rather than describing what they want and asking me to do it. Ordinarily I'm very defensive about my work and hate anyone else's hand meddling with it, but not in this instance. Not now. I'm tired and depressed and perhaps not entirely well, and just really grateful that all I have to do is read and check it. Tomorrow.

By the way, within that train of thought: Madeleine Robins has a really good post about text wranglers, over on the Deep Genre site. It's a sort of in-memoriam to Robert Legault (readwrite), who has died unexpectedly and will be ferociously missed, though it's disguised as an introduction to the editorial process. I think he would have liked it.

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