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I saw this a few months ago and giggled. Plus, if you know me well, you know I have a Scandinavian obsession. So win-win.
it’s in the mail. how quaint.
For some things we still use paper, folded up in an envelope.
I signed that contract, folded it up in the envelope, and slipped it into the mail slot. There was no crack of thunder.
I’m nervous, because The Future looms out there all mysterious, and the contract had words in it that sounded like forever. Or 21 years, at least. Me and Publisher, Publisher and Me, BFF’s 4ever. But people I trust said sign. Be happy about your little book. Sign it, send it. So I did.
Now I have an editor. Sounds so fancy.
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Yes! Another baby step in the birth of my firstborn . . . I’ve been assigned an editor. She has emailed me and seems like a real human and everything. Her name is Samantha Van Walraven.
I sent her my most recent revision and then I suppose she’ll read it and tell me about the hundred thousand things I need to fix. I can’t wait! I’m ready to slash and burn.
Also, I have an appointment to call the publishing house’s CFO on Tuesday to go over my contract. I have a couple of questions I’d like to clarify and then I’m signing that dotted line. I’ve gotten a lot of great advice from writer friends about it and actually feel pretty comfortable with it now.
cliché made easy
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This website makes me giggle. Cliché Finder (also note the URL containing “West Egg”)
“…Have you been searching for just the right cliché to use? Are you searching for a cliché using the word “cat” or “day” but haven’t been able to come up with one? …”
The site has a form in which you can enter a word…I tried entering the word “bell”. It returned:
rings a bell
clear as a bell
who’ll bell the cat
whatever rings your bells
and of course, over on the sidebar, Yahoo wanted to know if I wanted to buy any clichés. **snicker
Go ahead. Go play with it.
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art: cut paper by Kako Ueda
I finally got the actual, made-of-paper book contract for Get Real. I’m ridiculously excited about it. I’m supposed to sign two copies, mail them back, and then they send me back one signed copy. Maybe then they will assign me an editor and things will begin. Dunno, it didn’t say.
I shook the envelope a couple of times but no check fluttered out. I guess this company doesn’t do advances.
Still. So. Excited.
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