Copyedit DONE

[commodorified]

I have spent the last three weeks working on a copyedit for graydon; the book is called The March North, it's been GREAT fun to work on, it'll be out soon, and I shall be linking to it here. He described it to me as Egalitarian Epic Fantasy, which is quite true but perhaps too simple; it's got some deeply twisty, subtle world-building, characters of whom I got extraordinarily fond, and A FIVE-TONNE SHEEP NAMED EUSTACE, who is a) NOT comic relief, and b) awesome like an awesome thing.

I was inspired to commit fanart:




And the very large stuffed sheep we keep around for Oscar and Vivien has a new name now:

Comments

[theleaveswant]

\o/ Commonweal! \o/

And may I commend you on your extremely accurate fan art?

[commodorified]

I thank you! Obviously it was drawn by Radish's neeve, who then presented it to Cap with great pride (and only a LITTLE bit of nervousness)

[theleaveswant]

Obviously!

[castiron]

Cool! When's the expected pubdate?

[graydon]

Presuming I do not run melancholy mad either applying the 2994 changes involved in the laudably thorough copy edit nor extracting an isbn from distant beauraucracy, and similarly that the cover designer doesn't succumb, early in March.

[commodorified]

*dispatches a generous quantity of white linen for your use*

Dammit

[commodorified]

I could've found six more tweaks. I totally could've.

*sulks off muttering A Baaaaaa l'Archon*

Re: Dammit

[graydon]

Well, I'm sure you could have, but I'd hate to think you were tweaking things merely to produce round numbers. :)

It's Massachusetts in Base 16, does that help?

(2994₁₀ is BB2₁₆)

Re: Dammit

[commodorified]

My entire outlook on life has changed, and I can now face the future with my head held high.


Am very relieved by "laudably" though; was beginning to fret. As One Do.

Re: Dammit

[graydon]

Leaving asside the immorial Rule that applying copy-edits causes authors to swear, it's looking pretty good so far.

Re: Dammit

[commodorified]

*queries immorial*

"I have put 'immortal' ... but the author may mean 'immoral' after all."

well, I beat the Ides....

[graydon]

Google Books has finished chewing.

Kobo is still chewing; "Publishing" and "In Progress". Someday this will likely end.

And I really should grit my teeth about another file format (and set of tax forms) and put the thing up on Amazon, but I haven't yet.

[lasergirl]

To be fair, Olive has also had her share of time with Eustace.

ALL WE LIKE SHEEEEEEEEEP

[commodorified]

OLIVE-EUSTACE LUUUUUUUURVE!!!

[thnidu]

Fenton!

[nenya_kanadka]

Especially when commenting so late, I feel like I should have something more salient than "OMFG huge stuffed sheep!", but--OMFG HUEG STUFFED SHEEP.

It's so amazing. <3

[commodorified]

*graunch*

(This is the sound of book-Eustance eating something unspeakable)