A Meddling Week

In case you were wondering, in my experience an author is not particularly anxious days before their book comes out. Things move slowly in the business: it's been a year and a half since contracts were signed, months since the last revision, and the agony of the wait fades as the deadline nears. By this time the author has held samples of the final book, read a lot of reviews (thank you for those!) and made their peace with what's been printed. So though they tell me there's a lot of buzz abo...