A Twitter exchange between Ceri and I:
Autumn: Where are all the commas in this chapter? I usually have an excess of commas problem. Who wrote this?
Ceri: Cats! They’re in ur chapterz steelin ur commaz!
Autumn: Well, that would explain a lot. There must be a pile of commas in Kitty Wonderland. I’ll bet you anything it was Nixie.
Ceri: Someday, you will find her curled up asleep in a pile of stolen commas and it will be like a scene from a Jasper Fforde book.
But the point of this post is actually to say:
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a complete second draft of Orchestrated. *passes out*
Best news I’ve had all day! Congratulations!
Fantastic Love!
HRH.
Congratulations… must be wonderfully satisfying.
Well, it’s a second draft, so it’s not like it’s the big triumphant fireworks of the end of a first draft. And I need to go back and rework the beginning chapter while I develop a query letter and make my synopsis a bit fuller. But one celebrates every step in the process; it makes it easier.
Excellent!