So, I've been working an awful lot these past few weeks, probably more hours per day than I can remember ever doing.
I think that most novelists experience this kind of homesick experience when the publication process kicks in. What happens is that from the time you actually finish writing a book to the time when you come back to work on it as it goes into the publication calendar, a good number of months have gone by.
I wrote Stick about a year ago. I haven't touched it or looked at it, really, since then. Now I am doing some little tweaks on it for my editor as we move it toward publication in 2011.
I almost forgot how much I love this book. No, I think I actually did forget.
So it's real nice to be back home with my book that's kind of a love letter to a couple places that I feel a very strong connection to.
I'm also, as well, sending an entirely different book off to my agent this week. And both of these novels, Stick, and this other one, feel like coming home again after a long absence.
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I suppose it's a lot better than reading it a while later and thinking, "What was I thinking?" That usually happens to me.
So, mazel tov.
I've always appreciated a good book but I never had any idea of the process a writer must go through before I get to take the book home. Its been very interesting to see what happens long before I get the final product.
Thanks Andrew.
Thank you Connie. It is a much longer process than most people think. It is not uncommon at all for a writer, after selling a manuscript, to wait two years until the book is actually on the shelf of a bookstore.
And, thank you, Rogue.
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