Ghosts of Eden update
Yesterday afternoon the first edit of Ghosts came in from Five Star, so that's going to keep me busy until the 25th. Editor Deb Brod has done a fine job, said she enjoyed the book very much, and gave me a heads-up on a few instances of POV head-hopping I need to fix. No major rewrites, thank goodness. Fussy as I am, though, I'll go through the book again, line by line, making sure everything is as humanly perfect as I can possibly make it. Mistakes in print drive me nuts, just ask my hubby--he'll attest to the fact that I've gotten him circling the errors he finds in newspapers and magazines, lol. (This is something I do because I just can't help myself.)

Rant time for Gray: speaking of newspapers, one thing that bugs me is the new trend I'm seeing in entertainment sections. Some are titling them 'Leisure' sections, and one paper states that its Leisure is geared toward hobbies (like theater, art and books). That may be fine for some, but there are those of us who take our artistic endeavors more seriously, so calling what we do as 'a hobby' is demeaning. I collect old postage stamps and skulls (not real ones, although that may have to change, heh heh--only kidding) as a hobby. Genealogy is a hobby for me, although I know people who do it for a living. I know, I know. Newspapers are geared for the reader--they have to be in order to make any kind of profit...but man, classifying our livelihoods as hobbies and leisure, insinuating that what we do isn't really work, is just not the way to endear a paper to the art community. Okay, end of rant; I just had to get that off my chest.

Off to work for me. I have a bunch of editing to do :-)

~T