Reading slushpile manuscripts and revisions is the order of the week!

Pressing Matters: Week of Feb. 25-March 1, 2013

Acquisitions

1. Nothing new to report for the moment, although we’re working our way through a couple of requested fulls…

Editing

1. Revisions are in on Infinity Key and on Unannounced Project, and the re-editing is going well! Although the sheer number of tracked changes and colour-coded comments in Infinity Key is dazzling.

Production

1. Cover art for Blue Diamond Delivery is coming together. Best quip in this round of revisions: Introducing “Skepticles”® – the spectacles that make you look skeptical!
2. The Daughter Star has a print layout, and it’s purty.
3. So it turns out that beautifully painted covers rendered in Corel Painter are…big. Really big. “Exceeds printer’s maximum file up load size” big. Thankfully, we had a spare blank CD around (exactly ONE of them…), so files for The Other Half of the Sky have been burned and mailed off.

Reviews, Promotions, and Buzz

1. Publishers Weekly has reviewed The Other Half of the Sky! We totally agree that “space opera aficionados of all persuasions will enjoy these [stories].”
2. We have a winner in our Mr Blank fnord-finding contest! Congratulations to Paul C., who wins a Kobo Mini loaded with all the Candlemark & Gleam titles – plus a few upcoming releases!
3. Constellation Games author Leonard Richardson is getting some amazing buzz – and well-deserved praise. From the likes of Cory Doctorow, no less.

Sundries

1. YA author Malinda Lo has a must-read post on how authors can curate their online presence. The big takeaway? Be your best self. Good advice all around, really!
2. It seems that cats have always had an inclination for fussing over books. 
3. Spending much of the week grumbling at the C&G computer. We’re trying to make it hold out, but it’s getting increasingly cantankerous, and that doesn’t bode well…