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It’s due when?
There is a process that occurs when writing a book. Not a personal process, but one defined by the publisher who’s hired you to do the writing. As you write the book, you provide the publisher with your written pages in 25% increments. This way they know you are actually getting the work done and they aren’t sitting on their hands waiting for nothing. Also, this gives them the opportunity to take each submission and pass it on down the editing line.
The editing line consists of a few people. First the writer types the content onto the pages. Then the technical editor makes sure that what you have written actually does what you say it will do. Next, the copy editor checks the grammar, spelling and other related things so that what you are saying makes sense to everyone that reads it. After that, the copy makes it back to me, the author, where I can make sure those edits are what I want in the book. Last, the book goes through printing.
Well, a few days ago I received an email from my editor (the person that signed me to contract) asking about the cover art and some of the items that will end on the CD media in the back of the book. The email mentioned that she needed to get these items in soon. “Soon?”, I replied. “Should I be worried that I haven’t received the pages for my final edit?” She says, “Nah, they aren’t due until the 16th.”
The 16th, as it turns out, is in about 10 days. That means I have less than 10 days to go through 326 plus pages that I haven’t yet received. Looks like my vacation is just about over. (See, the vacation part is funny because I already have three other jobs. lol.)
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