Happy New Year!

2008, among other things hopefully, will be the year that I never play that brickbreaker game again because I deleted the program from my blackberry.  It was getting to be a bit of an issue. 

So now that 2007 is a thing of the past, I need to update my “books read this year” link.  The final count for 2007 was 23 books read (plus 1 book published, and 1 first draft written.)

My favorites (and these are not all books published in 2007, rather books I happened to get around to reading in 2007) to recommend are The Namesake, The Secret History, Blind Submission, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You (great cover) and They Did It With Love. 

For the immediate future, mostly I’ll be hunkered down working on the revisions to the upcoming novel.  It has a new title now: CITY DOG.  Like?  The consensus is that it’s much catchier than the original title.  I generally have quite a hard time getting over my original anything, but I like this title, too.  The revision process is so far good in that I agree with, I’d say, 95% of what my editor is saying, and so far bad because there’s so much fixing and rearranging to be done.  I swim right now in a sea of red pen, index cards and those little sticky flags I have in recent years become so fond of.  One thing that interests me is that one of my narrators (this book has three, one of whom is Carlie) comes across as depressed, and as that was not my intent at all, I’m working at trying to happy her up.  I hope to turn in the second draft at the end of this month and have that 90% nice clean slate / 5% oh no, what am I going to do next / 5% I miss all my imaginary friends feeling for February.

Carlie says hi.

Comments

[johanna]

I loved, loved, loved the Peter Cameron book. Probably my favorite of the year. Glad to see the revisions are going well. Can't wait for CITY DOG!