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May 1, the MS is in the Mail!

May 4, 2009 by Stephanie Vanderslice Filed Under: Uncategorized

So I haven’t posted in a couple of weeks because of number of looming deadlines, the loomingist of which was May 1, the date to get the revised manuscript Teaching Creative Writing: A Practical Guide and Sourcebook to our editor at Fountainhead. Because we were transforming it from a basic textbook to a professional guide, we had a lot of revising to do, all of which has made it a substantially meatier book, I’m happy to say. I’m also happy to report that since Wendy Bishop’s Released Into Language: Some Options for Teaching Creative Writing went out of print ten years ago, this book is going to be the only one of its kind.

Kelly Ritter, my longtime collaborator and I, wrote it with an eye toward what would have helped us out when we just started teaching but it’s so much more than that, thanks to the editor’s suggestions, which were a ton of work but have made it a much better book.

So yesterday was the deadline, preceded, of course, by the closest thing to an all nighter I have experienced since college. But when I told the editor I was going to email it to her she asked me to send it on a jump drive instead. I could have translated that to mean, “take a little longer, I don’t need it this second.” But I wanted, I needed that book in the mail so that I could turn my attentions to all the other work and family demanding them or at least luxuriate in having one less thing to worry about. So I scrounged myself a jump drive and a padded envelope and that baby went out late yesterday afternoon! This time next week, probably earlier, it will be in her hands–and one step closer to publication.

If you can’t tell, this post is basically one big sigh of relief. Aaaah.

Bye y’all,
SV

Comments

  1. Cindi says

    May 5, 2009 at 12:41 am

    Way to go, Stephanie! I wish only the best for you.
    Cindi

  2. Monda says

    May 5, 2009 at 10:50 am

    Congratulations! I won’t even talk about the ridiculousness of a May 1 deadline for those who teach – that’s self explanatory – but I will say Way To Go! I can’t wait to get my hands on this book.

  3. robin says

    May 6, 2009 at 12:09 pm

    hooray!

  4. Kelly says

    May 14, 2009 at 1:52 am

    Yay!!!! So glad we are done, and so glad you had the strength to pull that all-nighter!

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