The slow (but steady) march toward publishing, as inexorable as a stream finding the ocean, forward.
Editing. Done.
Copy Editing. Done.
First two rounds of drafts for the covers. Yes. (this is going to be a good looking book, I can tell you that, this is the designer’s website)
And then there’s more waiting. Holy cow, the novel’s title is itself a metaphor for the publishing process…. (it’s not, by the way *nervous laughter*)
I would like to share, however, the list of words the Copy Editor included in the Style Sheet for the novel. It’s funny, well it is to me, but it also says something about what this book is about. I think it does. And if you mix it up? It reads a bit like poetry. If, you know, poetry was like a dictionary:
adman
Angie
Ashtanga-certified
Athena
BBQ (not barbecue)
Berlin (the beer. Takes double quotation marks only at first mention)
bible (like a style sheet)
big city (adj)
the Big K Ranch and Spa
big sky casual
B-level
Boomer
camera phone
cell phone but smartphone
cocktailians
Coke, Diet Coke
Dan Fontana (journalist)
Dean & DeLuca
Dick (photographer)
dish pig
ditziness
a dot com (n)
dreamed (not dreamt)
dumbass
the face to face (n)
fuckin’
the Gap
get out of jail free card
God
Google (v)
go-to (adj)
the Gulley
Hojo
Indian Reservation
Joe Fields
Keith
Kennel Club
Knowledge Class (and Creative Class)
literati
The Loop
mac ’n’ cheese
the Man
Mathilde (pastry chef)
mock-laugh (v)
moneywise
Moscow Mule
Native
news cycle
9/11
the North Face
OK
out-of-towner
the Perch
porta-potties (generic noun adapted from brand name)
PR
reality TV
Rust Belt
scotch
shiraz
Sidecar
Sophie (French Canadian woman)
sous-chef
starchitect
star-filled
Stetson
St. Mark’s Place
stress-free
swimming pool blue
Takeshi
timesuck
to-do list
Tomas Hill (head chef)
TV
twenty-something
web, website, webcast, webmaster
west (direction); the West (region of the world)
western (adj)
Wild West, Old West
what-ifs
