2008•07•14 ~ COLUMBUS at 4AM is on its way
I sent COLUMBUS at 4AM off to the publishers just a few minutes ago. Hesitated to hit send. Hesitated some more. Played Bruce Cockburn's Pacing the Cage on the computer stereo and then hit SEND. Off it goes to TORONTO and NEW YORK... and eventually the UK...McClelland & Stewart, Doubleday, and Picador.
Six weeks of every-day, and every-night revising. Four days of 10 -12 hour editing/revising sessions at Miette Hot Springs. Six weeks of pulling at the threads of this incredibly complex novel and letting it all unravel -- trusting that I could weave it together again. Six weeks of writing new elements into the narrative. It's a hell of a fine book. I'm happy. I'm going to pour a healthy whisky and maybe grab one of the Partagas cigars from the Humidor -- go out on the deck and NOT think about the book.
If that isn't nice; I don't know what is!!