OK, what do I do now?

[gridlore]

For the first time in months I got up this morning without a deadline looming. I didn't have to rush through mail, didn't have word counts and sidebar ideas clouding my thinking.. it's weird.

Of course, sending the book out was very difficult for me. No matter how many accolades I receive, I'm one of those people who just can't accept that my writing is actually good. I'm always sure that it is going to come back with a note attached saying "you fraud! Give us back our money!"

Well, I could jump on the WoTC proposal.. or write a rough outline for Laws and Lawbreakers. But today, I think I'll play Nethack for a while.

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[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Next step is Steve Jackson sending out Benny the Basher to get his money back having the book reviewed and put up on Pyramid for playtest. Tou subsribe, right? If so, you can take part.

After that, I take all the useful comments and corections, and the smoking remains of my first draft covered in burning editorial marks, and write the final. In the mean time, the Art God is bribing the usual tempermental artists to actually put pen on paper (or pixels on screen in Jesse's case).

I have thirty days from receipt of the corrected first draft to submit the final. This deadline will be met.

After that, it goes into "production." I have no idea what it means, except that at some point the book goes to the Error Insertion Team. They make sure the book has the federally mandated amount of typos in a RPG product. They book then goes to the printer. I get the first copy delievered to SJG, autographed by Steve and Loren. Then the rest of y'all can buy it.

Since you contributed, I'll send you your freebie once I get the balance of my comp copies

Somewhere in here, I get paid. Figure about 3 to 5 months for the book to hit the street