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Dear Reader,
I love to laugh at myself and I was red-faced and quite amused, when I read last Thursday's column, after it was published at the book clubs. Since the column was all about mistakes, and there was an unintentional glaring error in the midst of it, I thought it was hysterical.
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(last Thursday's column)
I'm excited and feeling a little bit stressed. (Which is normal for me, I can't ever seem to experience one emotion without the other.) The past five days I've been engrossed in reading 2nd pass pages for my upcoming book, Muffins and Mayhem. One of the reasons I wanted to write a book was so I could learn something new, and I haven't been disappointed.
I knew a lot about the publishing industry before writing a book, because I'd worked with publishers for ten years through the book clubs. But getting an agent, submitting a proposal, visiting editors who were interested in my manuscript, the sale of my book at auction, finishing the manuscript (there were days when I was certain I was in way over my head) and then finally the day when I typed, "The End," what a ride.
Writing the book has added a brand new collection of words to my vocabulary. "Editor Speak Category" for $200, $400, $1,000, I could clean up on Jeopardy! Learning copyediting marks, and after the corrections have been made, 1st pass pages show up. 'Oh know, there's a terrible sentence, how could I have written that? Why didn't anyone point it out to me?' Corrections, rewrites, and then the manuscript goes back to the editor. A few weeks later, let's do it again--2nd pass pages arrive. Now it's really do or die time--find any final mistakes--or forever hold your peace when the book comes out, because that's it. Almost every author has warned me that when I finally see the published book I'm going to spot something that I wish I had seen sooner.
My husband has already informed me, "Suzanne, if there's a mistake in the book after it's published, you can't point it out like you do when you discover a run in your stocking."
Excited and stressed, excited and stressed, I think I better get used to it!
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
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