Arghhhhhh!
Last week I drafted another sample chapter for a client who is having trouble deciding exactly what they want in the book I’m ghosting. At least I’m 99% sure I did, but somehow I didn’t save it. I ended up emailing the original sample of that style, which she and her adviser had seen before. They wondered why I sent it and I wondered why I hadn’t heard anything one way or the other.
Makes me slightly crazy, or think I am. And yes, I know it happens to everyone once in a while, and yes, it hasn’t happened to me …read more

Arghhhh… I just lost about 5 pages of edits. I have no idea why this happens… all of a sudden Word stopped responding. Oh, I may have hit some weird keys or something, who knows.
Fortunately, I have the hard copy edit and I’ll also have to admit that often this second, unsuspected edit will be better than the first. Why? Because I don’t have time to do it right now… it will have to wait until tomorrow morning, which gives me another day to let it yeast. Still… don’t you just hate it when that happens? Aren’t you glad …read more