Tuesday, October 14, 2003
Short entry today. The trip looms and there's too much to be done. We've pushed the departure date ahead to Thursday, to buy some time.
Most of yesterday was spent typing up my corrections to the very last of the subpress Low Red Moon galleys. It's good to have that out of the way, finally. Also, I e-mailed an rtf. of the "finished" ms. of Murder of Angels to my agent in NYC, and also to Neil. Today I have to get an electronic copy of my short story, "From Cabinet 34, Drawer 6," to an editor in London. I wrote the story in November-December 2001 and I need to read through it again before I send it. Also, since first publication will be in England, I need to Britishize the spellings ("grey," "kerb," "tyres," etc.).
I heard from John Pelan yesterday, who co-edited (and wrote a story for) Shadows Over Baker Street. He reports that Del Rey took the liberty of Amercanizing all his British spellings (and obviously, that's stupid), and, in his introduction to the book, changed "Jeremy Irons" to "Jeremy Brett"! So, it's not just me. He's promised to do his best to see that my story is restored to its original form for the trade paperback.
And now I go, because I'm out of time.
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