[LMB] (chat) Galleys yay!

[Lois McMaster Bujold]

Ah ha --

    The galleys for _Passage_ finally arrived this morning, five days 
later than intended but good enough.  I've started my first read-through 
-- they look very clean indeed.  Man, I still love this book, even at 
this stage of late overdose.

    The next related para-book work for this volume will doubtless be 
some on-line PR stuff, climaxing in a book tour at the end of 
April/beginning of May, but really, when the galleys go back to New York 
the book is essentially bagged.  You all will doubtless spot the bound 
galleys on e-Bay before I do.  I know there are at least four people on 
this very list who have read the manuscript, but I suppose I ought not 
encourage cruel snerking and teasing.  Much.

    Now I await (still) the line edit for Volume 4.  I'd been expecting 
it in early December, but stuff evidently happened.  I did improve the 
hours by cleaning my office yesterday, a between-books chore I'd been 
putting off.  I think it has something to do with firing up my neglected 
exercise program last week; fix the body and the mind will follow.  In 
fact, *start* with the body.   Because by this stage of winter 
deconditioning it needs some lead time.

    And my new water softener was successfully installed, to boot.  Now 
my glassware will stop looking like nascent stalagmites.

    Ta, L.