It's in the Mail

If I may participate in a little self horn-tooting, my manuscript of Earth, Wind & Sky: A Power Tour was in the hands of the U.S. Postal Service as of yesterday. My husband packed it up in multiple layers of bubble wrap and plastic and bundled the whole thing into a Priority mail box. It is on its way to Texas Tech University Press. There editor-in-chief will send it out to various readers. I should know by early summer whether the book has been accepted, that is, whether it fulfills what I was contracted to do way back last summer. If so, then I imagine the readers will have ideas for revisions, and that's what I'll work on this summer. Then after I do that, the book will be copy edited, and I anticipate receiving many great ideas for improving my prose. If all goes well, the book will be released in early fall 2011. That seems like a million years from now but I think it will go by quickly. That is, if they accept it. There's always something to worry about!