Upcoming Tasks

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1. Kwana says:
   February 19th, 2008 at 9:32 am

   Good luck Diana. Busy month.

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2. Carrie says:
   February 19th, 2008 at 10:18 am

   That’s a lot — you can do it!

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3. Erica Ridley says:
   February 19th, 2008 at 12:31 pm

   Super-busy! And you reminded me…

   /looks at her GH pile guiltily

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4. ILuvLA says:
   February 19th, 2008 at 1:58 pm

   “1pp”?

   I thought that meant 1 page. Anyone care to clue me in on the abbreviations?

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5. Diana Peterfreund says:
   February 19th, 2008 at 2:45 pm

   1pp= first page proofs, also known as first pass.

   It’s when you get your manuscript laid out the way it will look like as a book, but on regular sheets of paper (so there’s a big white margin all around). This is basically the last chance you have to go over things, make sure it was typset correctly, and that there are no errors introduced (say, dropped paragraphs) or lingering typos.

   You CAN make itsy bitsy minor changes to the manuscript at this point, but you’re better off if you don’t.

   According to some contracts, if you make too many changes at this point that aren’t due to typsesetting error, the author can be charged.

   I go over it, my editor goes over it, and a bunch of proofreaders go over it.

   This is the same thing you see in ARCs, which is why there are often errors in ARCs that aren’t in the final manuscript, and why most ARCs come with huge warnings on them not to consider it the final manuscript and not to quote from it unless they’ve checked to see that this is how the text appears in the final manuscript.

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6. ILuvLA says:
   February 19th, 2008 at 3:14 pm

   Thanks, Diana! That was very informative.

   Reminds me of how Churchill would work on the drafts of his books. Only then, someone actually had to *set* the type.

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7. ILuvLA says:
   February 19th, 2008 at 3:15 pm

   BTW, recently blew through both SSG and UtR. The sequel was by far the better of the two and has me counting the days until ROSB.

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8. booklady says:
   February 19th, 2008 at 6:02 pm

   Good luck with it all. At least you won’t be bored! May the RITA and Golden Heart entries be as interesting as your CP’s work.

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9. Bill Clark says:
   February 20th, 2008 at 10:15 am

   a bunch of proofreaders go over it

   Can I volunteer to be one of the bunch? Last time I caught a few things others hadn’t, and mayhap I can do so again.

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10. Diana Peterfreund says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 10:25 am

    Can I volunteer to be one of the bunch? Last time I caught a few things others hadn’t, and mayhap I can do so again.

    No, Bill, you didn’t. As I explained at the time, by the time the ARCs come out, it’s an “old” version, and the manuscript has already been proofread several times since that version. Every mistake you saw had been long corrected in the versions we were working with in-house by the time the ARCs were distributed.

    Perhaps you saw stuff in the ARC that you won that I hadn’t seen when I myself, alone, went over it several months earlier (i.e., before the MS went out), but nothing that the proofreaders and my editor had not.

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11. ocannie says:
    February 21st, 2008 at 11:52 am

    Blogger ate my first attempt…

    I’m so excited that ROSB is even closer to being out on shelves! I can’t wait! Wheeee! And also very excited that Rampant is on its way to being completed. Anxiously awaiting for the day that it becomes a link to a bookseller site on your sidebar instead of just the black type!

    Good luck on your busy schedule!

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