Hey everybody!
Two VERY big items of note this morning:
1. Late last night I finished the FINAL “final” draft of ONLY THE GOOD SPY YOUNG! This was the draft that will actually go into production–no more passes. No more chances to tweak, correct, or just in general change. My part of this book is officially over.
Now, I know what you’re thinking: but it’s March! The book isn’t scheduled to be out until June 15th. Maybe this means the book can come out early!?!?
As sound as that idea is in theory, I’m afraid it just doesn’t work in practice, because even though I’m finished with MY job, dozens–or hundreds–of other people still have to do their jobs. Like the people who input my final changes, the people who print the books. Or ship the books. Or put the jackets on the books. Or…you get the drift.
Plus, publishers have to reserve each book a place in stores months in advance. And June 15th is the place they’ve reserved for me.
2. In other news, I’m absolutely thrilled to be leaving today for my first trip to Italy and the Bologna Children’s Book Fair!
I’ve wanted to attend Bologna (as we call this fair in the biz) ever since my very first editor mentioned it to me way back when we were working on LYKY. It’s a very big deal. Thousands of international publishers, agents, and authors converge on the city, and I’m thrilled to be one of them!
So I’ll be traveling for the next week or so. I’m going to try to keep the blog updated and, of course, twitter.
In the meantime, I’m going to turn comments off because I’ve been getting A LOT of spam comments and until we can get that fixed I just don’t have time to wade through them all, picking out the comments from REAL people!
Have a great week, everybody!
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-Ally
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