One of the most fun parts of writing a novel is the day you get the galleys. It’s the last part of the process before the actual physical book is printed. It’s the moment when you can not only hold accomplishment in your hands, but still feel the wonderful anticipation of the book to come.
Today, that fun has been doubled for me, as Fedex delivered my galleys for A Coventry Wedding from Kensington, and Tim and I also received the galleys from Cleis for Fool For Love. I’ve been sitting here reveling in the joy of it all, and I’m not making it up that when I flipped to the first page past the front matter and I saw this:
it made me every bit as happy as when I saw this:
Yes, I whited out the lines of David’s story. You don’t think I’d give it away for free, do you?
ETA: If any other contributors to FFL would like to see your first printed page, with text whited out, let me know. I’ll put it in comments for you.
Yay, becky!! Can’t wait.
I can’t wait ’til they get them at Barnes and Noble! 😉
how exciting!
And your name is in the first line of my novel! Thank you for sharing it. =)
not a problem! hope it brings some extra luck! 😉
HURRAY FOR BECKY!
You can’t see me, so you have to picture my happy dance.
If you’d do that a little to the right, I could see it via the stalkercam.
Hurray for all the FFL writers and Tim, too!
Oh dear. Stalkercam? I was in my undies…..
They send it to you in the “finished font” or whatever the phrase is… HOW NEAT!
It would mean a lot to me if you could post my first page, please? : )
So quick (and mighty generous) of you! I’ve been sitting by my monitor waiting.
This is a good example of what good editors you and Timothy were (and hopefully are in the future). Just awesome as hell to work with. Many more such anthologies, if you want it. : )
This means moreto me than I thought it would… it’s really strange and beautiful thing to see! Thank you.
So your first word begins with a “T,” huh?
It’s “Tutankhamen,” isn’t it?
Yours begins with “F,” which can only mean one thing: “Fahrvergnugen.” : )
You’re very welcome. Thank YOU.
It’s also insanely teasing and makes me want to try and “crack the code” of your words.
Me! Me! Do me next!
Apparently my story starts with Tutankhamen as well.
Which one of you plagiarized?!?
Maybe the G stands for “Ghostwriter.”
“I’d like to thank the Academy, and all the little people I had to step on to get into this book. Sorry Jackie Collins, better luck next time!“
“But most of all I’d like to thank Becky Cochrane and Timothy J. Lambert, the best editors and cheerleaders a writer could ever hope for.”
You’re most welcome. Except I first read that as “a WIFE could ever hope for” and got all excited that I had a wife, because I was going to ask you to run my errands.
So what does cleaning your windows and scrubbing your floors make me?
Oh yeah–your hushpuppy bitch.
I like that–“hushpuppy bitch.”
Somehow, I knew you would.
Please!
(He says, returning to the online world.)
And WHERE have you been, young man? You know how we worry.
My laptop has a first name, it’s w-o-n-k-y…
Awesome. Congrats to you all. Can’t wait for both books to hit the stands.
Thanks! Me, too!
Aw, look…they remembered your ” ‘ “.
Your first word wouldn’t happen to be idiograph, would it? 😉
I hope it isn’t “incest.”
There’s nothing wrong with the word incest!
Oh crap. There is, isn’t there? Why did no one tell me!
Hee! 🙂 My apostrophe and me, we’re goin’ places.
Congratulations to Becky & Timothy! I know what anguish you felt over this book for “your writers”.
Congratulations on the Coventry Wedding, also. I can’t wait to buy it for everyone on my Christmas list.
Thank you! (And with a release date in early January, you probably will start seeing it in December. Somewhere.)
(Jumps up and down waving hand frantically) Me! Me! Me!
Jeffrey R.