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June 20, 2005
If It's Monday, I Must Be In Naples...
From Beverly, June's Guest Literary Chick!
I spent the day on a yacht in Naples (Florida, not Italy) today. Not really, of course. Just in my head. The book I'm working on now is set in Naples, and I did that so I could visit the city--one of my favorite places in Florida--and still be able to say I was working. Of the six releases I have this year between me and my alter ego, Jacey Ford (yes, that's me, too), three of them are set in Naples. I'm glad I did this because I've been juggling writing the stories, doing promotion for all my releases, and dealing with copyedits and final read-throughs that crop up whenever I least expect them.
Let me tell you, all of this activity can make for one dizzy writer.
So far this year, I've been dealing with stories set in San Antonio and the eastern coast of Australia (I Spy, Jacey Ford), the Gulf coast of Mississippi (The Tiara Club, Beverly Brandt), an imaginary island in the Caribbean ("Painkillers" in the Kick Ass anthology, Jacey Ford), and then--YAY!!--three stories set in Naples (Match Game, Beverly Brandt; Dead Head, Jacey Ford; and "Nothing But the Truth" in The Naked Truth Anthology, Beverly Brandt). As you can see, on top of not always being sure where I am, I've got to contend with figuring out who I am as well! All I can say is, it's been an interesting year so far.
Beverly
Posted by at 6:03 PM | Comments (2)
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I've been wondering about something, since you bring it up. ;+) Authors like you who write under different names and have multiple books come out in a year, do you ever have more than one deadline hit at the same time? Or have rush edits for one project while in the midst of equally rush edits for another? Or is it your agent's job to play traffic cop and make sure that never happens?
Thanks
Posted by: beejay ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.literarychicks.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at June 21, 2005 1:26 AM
Oh, yeah, I get conflicting deadlines all the time! I'll be hot and heavy into a book that's due in say a week or so and--wham!--copyedits arrive on my doorstep that are also due in a week. It's difficult to plan for these because you never know when they're going to arrive. I got copyedits on 5/23 for a book I turned in back in January and got galleys (the final version of a story before it goes to print) on a novella earlier this month. I can't multitask, so I have to drop what I'm doing and take care of the copyedits or galleys and then get back to writing. It's a good problem to have, I know, but it does make you lose your focus and there's no real way you can get around it. Except, I suppose, by only writing one book every few years!
Posted by: Beverly at June 21, 2005 9:43 AM
