Elyse Sewell (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} elysesewell) wrote,@ 2005-12-26 00:29:00 |
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protection from every direction
Hey, Hong Kongers, guess what's being made into a book? No, not the millions of tiny pieces of skin I've been picking off my cuticles and saving in a jar. That's going to be more of a "vellumlike scroll," I'd say.
My blog! I've been working since August with SCMP Book Publishing to edit the crappy writing, eliminate the profanity and Americanisms, write some supplementary stuff, and select 200 never-before-blogged pictures! It's coming out on January 19th, and I'll be doing signings and readings around Hong Kong, so if you ever wanted to meet my skinny ass, now's your chance!
It's going to be cool- I'm pretty excited to see the finished product. Golly, working for a real live publisher sure is different from Livejournaling, y'all, but it was awesome getting to learn about how a book is made. I had an editor who confirmed my deepest fear a couple of times ("Elyse, that sentence doesn't make sense to anyone but you!"), and translated the whole thing into British English, the extraneous "l"s and "u"s rendering the manuscript all but incomprehensible to American old me. Remember that LJ entry where I saw the invigilator from my Maths exam standing on the kerb, wearing a poloneck and eating a mollusc? Yeah, that part reads completely differently in the book version.
Right now, my manuscript is in the hands of a designer who's preparing the final layout. Almost all of the decisions about the books appearance were up to her. We disagreed a few times about the first couple of page layouts she created (fuchsia drawings of fish and television sets splattered all over the text? I vetoed), but the cover design and the packaging are dope and I get to approve the page layouts next week. Then printing! Then bookstores! Then the eventual replacement of the Gideon Bible in hotel rooms worldwide with copies of Beauty and the Biz: The International Adventures of America's Third-to-Next Top Model.
So save your red pocket money- if you decide to take the plunge, this bad boy will cost you HK$143.
Sorry, non-Hong Kongers who might be interested, but the book will only be sold in HK.
Belatedly, Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!
Hey, Hong Kongers, guess what's being made into a book? No, not the millions of tiny pieces of skin I've been picking off my cuticles and saving in a jar. That's going to be more of a "vellumlike scroll," I'd say.
My blog! I've been working since August with SCMP Book Publishing to edit the crappy writing, eliminate the profanity and Americanisms, write some supplementary stuff, and select 200 never-before-blogged pictures! It's coming out on January 19th, and I'll be doing signings and readings around Hong Kong, so if you ever wanted to meet my skinny ass, now's your chance!
It's going to be cool- I'm pretty excited to see the finished product. Golly, working for a real live publisher sure is different from Livejournaling, y'all, but it was awesome getting to learn about how a book is made. I had an editor who confirmed my deepest fear a couple of times ("Elyse, that sentence doesn't make sense to anyone but you!"), and translated the whole thing into British English, the extraneous "l"s and "u"s rendering the manuscript all but incomprehensible to American old me. Remember that LJ entry where I saw the invigilator from my Maths exam standing on the kerb, wearing a poloneck and eating a mollusc? Yeah, that part reads completely differently in the book version.
Right now, my manuscript is in the hands of a designer who's preparing the final layout. Almost all of the decisions about the books appearance were up to her. We disagreed a few times about the first couple of page layouts she created (fuchsia drawings of fish and television sets splattered all over the text? I vetoed), but the cover design and the packaging are dope and I get to approve the page layouts next week. Then printing! Then bookstores! Then the eventual replacement of the Gideon Bible in hotel rooms worldwide with copies of Beauty and the Biz: The International Adventures of America's Third-to-Next Top Model.
So save your red pocket money- if you decide to take the plunge, this bad boy will cost you HK$143.
Sorry, non-Hong Kongers who might be interested, but the book will only be sold in HK.
Belatedly, Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!
