{"id":398,"date":"2012-06-12T17:46:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T04:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.limestonehills.co.nz\/?p=398"},"modified":"2012-06-12T17:46:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T04:46:39","slug":"on-delivering-a-second-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/on-delivering-a-second-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"On delivering a second draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">F<\/span>or the two and a half people who come here with some sort of regularity: big news. I have finished the second draft of my next book, a work of speculative fiction ((Which I usually describe as a science fiction comedy adventure satire. Others might prefer cli-fi, or climate fiction.)) with the working title of <em>Lemmy, or Around The World By Airship<\/em>. Since I <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.limestonehills.co.nz\/being-the-first-part-of-the-next-book\/\">announced the project<\/a> over two years ago, I have been setting and missing any number of deadlines for its completion. The last few weeks have been spent rejigging and restructuring the book based on a preliminary read-through by my editor, the estimable Lorain Day. It&#8217;s been a bit like doing a cross between a jigsaw puzzle and a crossword puzzle, trying to make a Jackson Pollock into a Van Gogh, and now I leave the text &#8212; all 112,594 words of it &#8212; to Lorain&#8217;s tender mercies. A copy of the draft is also in the hands of the artist who will do the cover, the very wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/hicksvillecomics.com\/\">Dylan Horrocks<\/a>, who has, I think, only agreed to do it because there are airships involved ((Specifically, a very hi-tech and intelligent airship.)).<\/p>\n<p>With luck and a following wind, I hope to publish <em>Lemmy<\/em> in a couple of months. It will be an ebook, available worldwide through Amazon for Kindles, and through everyone else for iPads, Kobos, Nooks, Sony Readers, iPhones and the rest. Or you&#8217;ll be able to buy it direct from me, if I can finally work out how to install a little web store on this site. Paper copies of <em>Lemmy<\/em> will be available soon after through print on demand services. More on the publication plans as they firm up over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the two and a half people who come here with some sort of regularity: big news. I have finished the second draft of my next book, a work of speculative fiction ((Which I usually describe as a science fiction comedy adventure satire. Others might prefer cli-fi, or climate fiction.)) with the working title of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/on-delivering-a-second-draft\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On delivering a second draft<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-books","tag-lemmy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}