The “Pointer Outer” And Me

If any of you are still hanging with me, you might have wondered what the heck I’m doing with my life. In all fairness, I should have warned you this was coming.

The thing is, I didn’t exactly know what “this” was.

As many of you realize, if you read the blogs of authors and aspiring authors—-and certainly if you are one yourself!—-the road to getting a book published is long and fraught with a bunch of stuff. You read that right: stuff.

My agent and I decided to send my book out to an indy editor before shopping it around to publishers. You may not know this, but an editor doesn’t exactly fix your book herself. She’s not a BOOK FIXER, darn it. She’s a BOOK POINTER OUTER. And she is VERY good at pointing out!

What the indy editor did for me is not unlike what I might expect if the book is purchased and assigned to a publisher’s editor. So I believe I am correct to imagine that in the very best case scenario, I will be repeating this process with another editor down the road.

I’ll just go ahead and say it: I LOVE my Book Pointer Outer. I have met her in person at the American Christian Fiction Writers Conference that I attend every September. But when she finished her edits, she sent me back a TWENTY-TWO page, single-spaced letter to explain the notes that would be scattered throughout the manuscript when I finally had the guts to turn on edit mode and look at them.

Twenty-two pages!!! Now, all is not lost. At LEAST 1/3 of a page brimmed with compliments! No one said this industry was for sissies.

How many comments did she leave in the actual 350 page manuscript, you might ask? A few. LIke approximately 1500. Of those, SEVERAL (and by several I mean, literally, three) pointed to something I’d written and said “LOL” or in one particularly gratifying case, “LOLOLOLOL.”

The other 1497 pointed to, let’s just say, problems. Not terrible problems, for the most part. But stuff that must be addressed. By me.

For, you see, I am the Author! She is the Pointer Outer. Darn. Some days, I think I would make a dandy Pointer Outer. Ha.

I am buried in edits, as writers say. I have a self-imposed deadline of September 1. I really want my agent to be able to shop my book at ACFW on Sept 18. I really, really do.

If you would like to pray for me, I would humbly accept the gift of your prayers. If you would like to leave me a comment to let me know you’re still here even though I’ve been a very, very bad blogger, I would truly love to hear from you.

I’ll be back! I miss all of you! Thanks for hanging with me.

Posted by Katy on 07/28/08 at 11:38 AM

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