Done!

The book is done!

And here I was thinking that this baby would decide to come, now that I’d typed the last sentence. Uh, no. The child is still hanging out, in no particular hurry. Sigh.

On the bright side, I’m on maternity leave now, so I’m going to spend the week cleaning the house and working on revisions. It would be nice to e-mail the book to my editor before Thanksgiving. We’ll see how it goes. Revisions are one of those tasks that I have a hate-love relationship with. On one hand, it’s a lot easier to delete scenes and cut out unnecessary sentences when you’re no longer concerned about page count. But the toughest part is fleshing out those undercooked scenes. It’ll get there in time. I feel much more relaxed, now that the draft is done.

So, anyone want to take a guess when this child will show up? We should run a pool or something. Tell you what, the closest guess gets a copy of one of my books–your choice! Pick a day, time, gender, etc. and we’ll see who wins.