Line Edits: Book Three

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It's line edits time for me again! I feel like I need to talk about this since I talked about line edits for my first and second book on here (have we really been running Author2Author that long girls? Wow!). Let's review:

Book One: I cried. Line edits terrified me. They were big and scary and really marked up. I talked about the experience here.

Book Two: I was ecstatic! I danced! Line edits were like a party! It was a year later and I thought I was a pro. You can read about it here.

Book Three: And I'm very content with the whole process. No crying, no dancing, just getting to work. It's very comfortable for me now. I know what I need to do and how to get it done (For example, I have to get up and walk around the house approximately every ten pages or I go crazy. This only happens with line edits. Weird?). This all makes me very happy because I don't feel like a nervous debut author any more. I feel like an experienced author now. Yay!

Kristina, Miss See Me On the Shelves

Line Edits: Book Two

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I got a very exciting package marked EXTREMELY URGENT via UPS this past week. Very exciting. It was my line edits for My Fake Boyfriend is Better Than Yours! Whoo Hoo!!

Okay, I don't know why this is thrilling me so much. When I got line edits for The Espressologist I think I mentioned crying. Hmm, oh yes-- here is where I talked about it. Line edits, at first, seem daunting. But not this time! This time they are wonderful!

I think I'm partly so excited because I didn't know what my book two was going to be for a REALLY long time. I mean, I sold it in May of 2007. Back then it was called Untitled Book Two. And I kept trying various ideas to see what would make the BEST second book for me. When I got this last idea for MFBIBTY and sent the first chaps and an outline to my editor and she said it was a go, I needed to write it very quickly. Like, in two months. I was so into this book though so that wasn't a problem at all. I guess it happened so fast that it still doesn't seem real to me. But seeing the line edits with a designated title page here and a dedication page there makes it all REAL. Which completely thrills me!

So whenever I find a spare moment, you'll find this happy little author with her laptop, notes, colored pencil, and iced mocha, busily working away at Starbucks.

Kristina, Miss Delighted to Debut