I feel like when I say “galley”, I’m aboard a pirate ship cooking fresh-caught fish…haha…but not so.
For those non-writers of you in the audience, galleys are the final copy for proofreading a story or book before it goes into actual publication…kind of like that final draft you dreaded when your 8th grade English teacher assigned it for homework over the weekend. Yeah, so I’m a geek…I’m more excited about my galleys than I am about an upcoming birthday party for a friend…ah well!
My galley arrived today in my email…a sight for the weary as the day job has really worn me down this week. I only had time to print and glance at the cover (on my website if you wanna check it out…I love it…) but will snuggle in with it tonight, along with my trusty red pen. (Old classroom habits die hard).
I’m still tossing around the mental disbelief that someday soon, those words on my page will be out in the public eye. Now that’s scarier than any red-pen-marked-up-assignment…as any writer will tell you. I think having the courage to put out your babies (writing babies) before the public is the ultimate form of soul-baring (or sadomasochism, in some ways). We’ll see how it goes….
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