Hello, friends!

I'm once again juggling novels: A couple of days ago, the editor of my ghostwriting project returned the manuscript to me, glowing with copyedits that needed my attention. One of the first things I do when I receive a copyedited manuscript is look for the total number of edits that need my approval or revision.

Two thousand three hundred and change.

Publishing is just this way sometimes: Incredibly tedious, usually rushed. I have to return the next draft of the manuscript in less than two weeks. So: Juggling. So far successfully, though: I spend a little time on The Dark Age first, write a scene or a page or so, and then I turn my attention to the many editorial comments in my other book: Author, are you okay with this change? Author, you reused the word 'singsongs' six times in this book and that's five more than a reader will tolerate; revisit? Author, you just had this character hug his mother but two sentences before he was carrying a platter piled with wriggling goldfish: Resolve the goldfish.