I know, it's been months since my last posting.
But's it's my book's fault.
I heard from the publisher I sent my manuscript to, and they requested a revision. So off to revising I went. I mistakenly thought I could get it finished and returned to them in six weeks. But obviously I didn't. After eight weeks I thought I was still making good time. Thanksgiving was my goal.
I felt lucky in that I had a rough draft of the sequel already written (I'm a little bit excited about my book), so I was able to cut and paste in a couple of chapters to accomplish the changes the publisher requested. But then I had the great idea to change the sequence of events a little bit, which in turn changed the story line a bit, so I had to make sure any changes I made were consistent throughout. So that took a little more time than planned.
Then I was lucky enough to have two friends/published authors, who nicely agreed to read my book and let me know what they thought. I took their pointers and read and reread my book a billion times and happily sent it in on Christmas Eve.
Then.
I went to visit my parents the week after Christmas and my mom wanted to read my book. As she read it outloud, I found error after error. I was embarrassed that I had been so sloppy in my editing, but also realized how easily my mind auto-corrected my story because I knew it so well.
So I made the corrections, resubmitted it and blamed the mistakes on too much non-alcoholic egg nog over Christmas.
And now I'm back to waiting. I think the time frame is two months, give or take. So I'm hoping I'll hear by March, and I'll be sure to announce any good news. Any bad news, I might just keep quiet :), but I have a good feeling about it . . .
