Book is finished, and other things.

[merofi]

It's been almost two years (slightly over a year and a half), and after several false alarms, the book is now really done and sent out to my agent.  There's more work -- editorial notes for when (and if?) the book gets picked up, along with creating the proposal package, but for now I'm basking in the sweet, sweet relief of this huge benchmark.

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[merofi]

No final title yet. I'm hoping I can have a fun brainstorming session with the publisher, if it gets picked up. For now, it is still simply "Rema".

[merofi]

Thanks! It hasn't really sunk in yet. It probably won't feel real until it gets published.

[dik_pose]

Awesome Amy! Huge congratulations on meeting this milestone!!!

[merofi]

Congratulations to you too for finishing up the Z's!! I loved it! Blast me for being a furry fool, Richard! XD

[merofi]

I haven't read The Road yet, but it's on my list! I'm not sure if you'll like these, but some of my favorite short story collections are:

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. It's a fun series of sometimes lewd stories written in the 1300s and contains one of the few first-hand accounts of what it was like to live in Italy during the Plague.

The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabelle Allende. If you like magical realism, you'll like this. It's also like Arabian Nights in that a storyteller tells her lover a series of short stories, and they're all great but "If You Touched My Heart" is my favorite. It's so dark and terrible!

There's also good collections of Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson short stories which I usually enjoy. And you can't go wrong with short stories by O'Henry, although some people would argue about that I guess. Hope you find yourself something good!

[music_slut]

Congrats!!!

...I have to admit though, I wasn't all that impressed with the new Royksopp album.

[merofi]

Thanks! And that's too bad because I love it haha~ although my musical taste seems to be getting easier to satisfy lately. I'm beginning to like just about everything.