Still not quite done. I have two tweaks left and then I need to double-check that I didn’t miss anything and the changes I’ve already made are as brilliant and perfect as I thought they were when I did them. Snort.

Edits are hands-down the hardest part of writing a book for me. Changes that sound simple often aren’t, and there’s always a ripple effect. Change one thing over there, and now everything else has to be changed for consistency. So there’s always the tricky “did I remember to get all references to Blah” business.

But the really hard part is that you have to think analytically and creatively together, which pretty much sprains my brain. You have to see the analytical “this has to change to accomplish X” and then you need the creative, “Okay, we can get there by doing this”, and what tends to happen is the analytical squelches all the creative insight you need. It’s very hard to think both ways at once. Usually I do edits to the soundtrack for the story to get the creative juices flowing and I forgot to do that on this round because the holiday music is on. Must remember that trick next time.

Anyway. Almost there. In happy news, Love Romances nominated Ellora’s Cavemen Seasons of Seduction III in the Best of 2007: Best Erotic Anthology! So we’re nominated for best in two places. Yay.