I Wrote A Book!

I just sent my final manuscript to my editor to get sent to copyediting.  It doesn't mean it's done -- there can still be changes throughout copyediting, and potentially changes after my editor and agent read the manuscript tonight, but it's pretty much done.  Weird.  Now I need to find something to do!  :)  I think first I'll eat lunch, since I haven't eaten anything all day...

The good part, for readers of the Anonymous Lawyer blog, is that I have pages and pages of material that isn't on the blog and got cut from the book at some point in the process, so that's all stuff I can repurpose for a fair number of posts, I think -- and more than once a week.  I feel pretty bad that I've only been posting once a week over there, and not that great when I do.  But hopefully I'll have more of a chance now.

Even more interesting, I now get to see what happens after I finish writing... the marketing stuff, and all sorts of things I probably don't know about yet.

And I get to throw away a lot of paper.  I think I have 12 complete manuscript printouts, from various points in the process, some printed on the back of other manuscript printouts.  I've tried to save whatever I can use the back side of as printer paper, but a lot of it got mangled by binder clips and now it won't slide effectively through my ten-year-old printer.

I wonder if printers and computers age like dogs.  Like, if your computer is 3 years old, is that a hundred in human years?  Two hundred?  Forty-five?  Just a thought.  Maybe we should convert everything to human years.  My milk has been open for 3 days, so that makes it about 60 in human years, right?  I don't know.  I probably throw my milk away too soon.  5 days or so and I start to get really skeptical even if it looks okay.

Comments

[MF]

Congratulations, Jeremy! This is really impressive. You've done something most people only dream of.

[Pam]

Congrats! I can't wait to read it.

[Sanya]

Congratulations :) I wish I could be the first one to buy a copy but I'll probably get beaten by say, oh, a thousand people.

[Donzo]

Do keep us posted!

[ASSociate]

Congrats and good luck with it. I look forward to reading the "deleted scenes"

[Allison]

I've been reading your blog since before I came to HLS, and I hope you'll come back to visit good ol' Cambridge to do some sort of marketing promotion!