Revision Junction, What's Your Function? (Fixin up plots and characters and . . . other stuff)

In case you were wondering, I'm still hard at work on revisions for agent Michelle. At some point, hopefully soon, I won't be–though I won't say anything when that happens and we go on sub. Mum's the word, and all that. But for now, she's still helping me nudge my book into shape.

When we had our first phone call, she asked if I thought I was done revising. I think that every author hopes–on every draft!–that this version is the final version. And Daughter of Earth had been revised more than...