Saturday, July 05, 2003
Yesterday, I read back through the end of Chapter Five of Murder of Angels and made a few corrections. Once we're done with all this godforsaken proofreading, I have to read through the whole chapter before moving along to Chapter Six and Part II of the novel. Actually, I won't be able to wait that long. I'll have to do it before the proofing is done.
Spooky and Jennifer and I proofread chapters Nine and Ten of Low Red Moon. It's such a good book. I'm not in the habit of praising my own work. I rarely find it praiseworthy, but LRM is an exception. This time I think I got it right and, after the three before it, that knowledge feels pretty good. I can only hope that Murder of Angels turns out half so good.
Also, we registered lowredmoon.com for a promotional site devoted strictly to this novel. Don't go there now; there's only a "coming soon" notice. It'll have some cool extras later on. I finished up July 4th with the AMC (damn their pan-and-scan, commercial-showing hides) Planet of the Apes marathon, which seemed somehow strangely appropriate to the day.
I dropped by Amazon.com this morning and it was very cool seeing Silk, Threshold, and Low Red Moon lined up together. These three books. My life, 1992-2002.
And this e-mail from my pal-in-all-things-geeky, the perspicuous Mr. Jim Shimkus:
Your historical knowledge is sorely lacking. Everyone knows that July 4th is the day Lee surrendered to William the Conqueror at Waterloo. Jesus was responsible for the Louisiana Purchase and Tammany Hall.
Jim, you are so right. I am a doofus. An historically illiterate doofus.
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