Okay . . . *

 

. . . We're on.  I've heard from my editor;  she says it's still worth a shot at the autumn '10 list for PEGASUS and how fast do I think I can do the rewrites—?  Unh.  I won't actually know till I have.  She hasn't yet given me (or Merrilee) the uber-final, drop dead, drop dead or drop dead, deadline when it has to go into copyediting—if it's going into copyediting for next autumn—it'll be November, but November is four weeks long.  If it's the beginning of November I'm in more trouble than ...