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Tuesday, March 21, 2006ARC  The ARC (Advanced Reader's Copy) for Lady came in the mail yesterday. This is basically a copy of the book in Word printed up and bound. (No fancy chapter headings, no fancy font. Just a type written manuscript printed and bound.) The publisher will print up a small number of these and send them to reviewers (so they can review your book in a timely manner) and to booksellers (so they can read the book in advance and be familar with it when it arrives in their store--just in case they want to, like, put it on the front table or something).This version of the book is a little different from the real version because these ARCs (pronounced "arks") are printed before the "technical" edit is done. (A technical editor makes sure all your nouns and verbs agree. She makes sure your characters eye color remains the same throughout the book. She queries you about any historical facts she questions. That kind of thing.) Also, these ARCs are printed up before I've given it the "final, final" read-through. So, in the case of Lady, I tightened up the opening scene quite a bit. The ARC doesn't reflect that. I changed some of the sentence structure throughout to make sure the book had a good "flow" to it. The ARC doesn't reflect that. I fixed the spot in the book where I forgot what color hair my character had and changed it from brown to black (or maybe it was black to brown--I can't remember). The ARC doesn't reflect that. I fixed what the technical editor asked me to fix. The ARC doesn't reflect that. So ... that's what an ARC is. It also means that the real book is being put in the que for actual production. I'm starting to get excited!
posted by Deeanne at 11:42 AM
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8 Comments:
Are you ever sick of a book by the time it comes out? After all that work?
1:16 PM
Yeah. I get sick of it when I do the "galleys." (Which is that final, final read-through after the technical edit.) The good part about that is once I sign off on the galleys and mail it back to the publisher, the excitement starts to build.
You get the ARC, the reviews start coming in, you start seeing ads and whatnot and then, before you know it, the book arrives at your house and within a couple of weeks, on the store shelves.
Kinda like a baby. That last trimester is horrid, but the big payoff comes and you forget all the yucky stuff.
2:56 PM
Ha! Those little feet perpetually pushing in your aching ribs!
Do your characters ever change unexpectedly as you're writing? Like a good girl becomes a bad girl, or a bad guy a good guy? That sorta thing, when it's not what you planned?
3:53 PM
Great question. I'll post about that tomorrow.
9:28 PM
You know I havd found that the publishing process has so many little excitements, that it takes away the big overwhelming climax. It is like opening up a volcano a vent at a time instead of letting it fester and really blow. Do you ever feel that way?
Blessings,
10:47 AM
That ARC looks different than the one I got! Going to be reviewing it on my blog soon - if that's okay with you, Dee. :)
7:45 PM
You are very welcome to review it, Jezreel. And, yes, you didn't get an ARC, you got a bound galley. (The ARCs hadn't been printed when they did the market test that some of y'all participated in. That's why you got a galley instead of an ARC. The galley's are prettier, I think.)
I dunno, TS. Seeing that book on the shelf was a pretty big "boom" for me. Was it not that way for you?
P.S. Sorry I didn't blog today. Left the house at 8:00am and didn't get back until 7:30pm. I should be able to post tomorrow, though!
8:58 PM
Aha! A galley! Even better :P When I get a minute I'll be sure to review it.
11:43 AM
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