Finally done all the novel edits - the manuscript is FINISHED!

I spent quite a bit of time last week with the Lulu copy of Night of the Empty Moon, going through every single page and marking typos and clumsy-sentence type errors. It took a while, and a lot of patience. I was even scribbling away in the pub on Saturday afternoon (whilst The Boyfriend and his friend watched Wales trounce England. At least Arsenal won...)

Today, I got all of the remaining type-ins done (had already typed in the corrections to the first 4 or so chapters). It took most of the morning, but it's finally DONE. Either this weekend or next Tuesday, I plan on doing a big mailout ... I've got the list of hapless agents and publishers ready. ;-)

I've also been working away at The Office Diet, which is slowly gaining momentum -- my page views are consistently 100-150 a day at the moment, and I've had some lovely feedback on forums or by email from readers. It still feels like a bit of an uphill slog; I love writing it, but marketing it seems to take a lot of time. I hoped the mythical "word of mouth" would have kicked in by now...