The manuscript looks like a real book. That would be because it's been set up for printing, all formatted and spaced and margined. Chapters are headed, pages are numbered, the ISBN is assigned.
So I could work on a short story that's kicking around my head, but it would be better for the production schedule if I finalize the blurb that goes in the catalog.
How else will potential book buyers know what Lace Curtain Irish is all about?
The pressure is on.
Those few paragraphs have to contain the plot, and contain it in an intriguing manner. This blurb is all about catching interest, catching fire, catching hold. It must, absolutely must, be good.
Before long, I'll have the physical book in my hands, one for me and several others to be given away for publicity. That's down the line, in the near future, and anyone who wants to read about love, betrayal, loss and redemption in the first generation of Irish immigrants to call Chicago home will want to watch the website of Newcastlewest Books for information.
What to say? How to say it? Like writing a novel, there will be a first draft, a revision, an edit and more revisions, all compressed into a couple of days.
Writing is a job, isn't it?
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