DONE!

[sleigh]

 The submission draft for A MAGIC OF DAWN is done.  She weighs in at 176,500 words (not counting appendices and other such material).  I started the novel on June 17, 2008, so this one took almost exactly one year from the first word entered to this draft.

Not that it's really done yet.  I'll have comments from my first readers, and (most importantly) Sheila's revision notes after they read it, so there's yet another significant draft to go.  Then there will be the copy-edits, which will introduce a few smaller changes.  And galleys, where potentially other (small) changes might be made.  So the novel will be touched again several times before it shows up on in the bookstores.

But for now -- we're done!

Comments

[lauriemann.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[tcastleb.livejournal.com]

Yaaay! Woohoo!

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

I'll see that "Yaaay!" and raise you one "Woohoo!"

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

I have a novelette to write for WILD CARDS; that's next up in the queue. As to the next novel... well, I have some ideas of what I might want to pitch, but nothing definite as yet.

[kythiaranos.livejournal.com]

Yay! I look forward to reading it.

[rmeidaking.livejournal.com]

So when do you start on the sequel?

(ducking)