{"id":1683,"date":"2012-07-09T11:51:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T16:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2012-07-09T11:51:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T16:51:14","slug":"cassie-scot-edits-are-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=1683","title":{"rendered":"Cassie Scot Edits Are In!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first round of edits for my upcoming urban fantasy novel, <em>Cassie Scot: Normal Detective<\/em>, are in! <\/p>\n<p>What this means for you: Not much, to be honest, although it looks more likely that February 2013 will be the publication date. I expect the cover art reveal to be more exciting. <\/p>\n<p>What this means for me: I get to spend the next week or so doing another thorough read-through of my novel. The comments don&#8217;t look extensive, at a glance, so it shouldn&#8217;t be difficult, but it does need to be done. <\/p>\n<p>Truthfully, I didn&#8217;t expect the editorial remarks to be extensive &#8212; I&#8217;ve rewritten this book more times than some people think is wise. And those people may have a point, because that spark of energy fades over time, but ultimately I feel that every change I made to this novel was for the better. Compared to my earlier drafts, Cassie is a more dynamic character, Evan (the love interest) is a more dynamic character, the ending makes more sense, and there are lots of little tidbits that won&#8217;t mean anything to you until you&#8217;ve read the rest of the series, but which should, upon reflection, reassure you that I had a plan all along. (I really do!) \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>FTR, I&#8217;m working on the last book in the series now, and am on a roll. My only concern is how putting it down to go back to the beginning will affect that roll. I&#8217;ve put down current drafts to work on edits in the past, of course, but never a draft that is part of the same series. Things have changed so much for Cassie&#8230; I wonder what it will be like to go back to the beginning from the turmoil of the end. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first round of edits for my upcoming urban fantasy novel, Cassie Scot: Normal Detective, are in! What this means for you: Not much, to be honest, although it looks more likely that February 2013 will be the publication date. I expect the cover art reveal to be more exciting. What this means for me: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cassie-scot","category-my-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1684,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}