Productive cat (is productive).

[seanan_mcguire]

I have just finished my first post-editorial pass through Rosemary and Rue, book one in the Chronicles of October Daye. All changes suggested by a) my proofreaders, b) my own neurosis, and c) my editor have been incorporated into the text, which continues to get cleaner and crisper and more all-around happy-making with every smack of the machete.

I've also updated the continuity guide (yes, again) to reflect the new canon. I honestly can't wait for publication, not just because, dude, PUBLICATION, but because I so very much want to have official and formal and unchanging canon. I'm really looking forward to being forced to live with my decisions. It seems like it's going to be a pretty awesome thing to complain about.

Chris is setting up a Wiki for me to transition my continuity guide into, because that's going to be so much easier to work with than my current enormously massive .doc file that it isn't even funny. Infinite links! Category pages! Related pages! Truly, my geeky little heart swoons with the anticipation of making my already-obsessive database even larger, and more obsessive. And I found another month this morning, bringing the total of months represented in the series up to six. Behold!

Now I am going to turn in my manuscript, get dressed, and go to Starbucks. Because that's just the way we roll.

Comments

YAY!

[kathleenfoucart.livejournal.com]

A Wiki! I just started using a Wiki, and it is obsession-inducing. Sooo much fun to link everything together. Even more fun than timeline spreadsheets. :)

Re: YAY!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I've done Wiki-style wonderfulness before, and you're right, it's totally obsession-inducing. Given the size and complexity of my version of Faerie, that's really not a bad thing at all. Whee!

[quadrivium.livejournal.com]

Wikis are wonderful! Wesley is using one for his office now, and we also have one for his D&D meta campaign (and all the little campaign babies.) *grins*

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love Wiki so hard. And yay for game Wikis!

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

Another month represented as in 'the book takes place during part of that month' or as in 'another person named after a month?'

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

The latter.

[yolandasfetsos.livejournal.com]

Congrats on getting the first post-editorial pass done! Yay. The closer you get to publication, the closer I get to reading your book. Totally awesome. :)

Have a great weekend!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I should hopefully -- fingers crossed -- be able to start announcing a publication date sometime within the next few months. I have an idea of who my cover artist will be, and I have a very, very vague (not yet announcable) idea of publication.

Squee.

[talithakalago.livejournal.com]

You made me lol. Just in the places you sounded exactly like me. You know, the obsessive, geeky parts.