Scholars and Rabbits: Proof Copies Galore

Ahh, the writing life. And this time a double-header! First up, from Author/Compiler Dennis Wilson Wise:

Hwaet! The proofs have arrived, and I hoped you could take a look at your chapter to ensure that no errors have crept in through the layout process. I’d like all contributors to do three things:

Confirm that the line numbering is correct;

Verify that no errors have crept into your final text (I’ve already done the headnote and endnotes myself);

If you see an error, please either mark it on the PDF or email me the line, error, and correction you wish to see.

At this point in time, only minor changes can be accommodated. Focus on correcting errors, misspellings, or mistakes in the typesetting. Please refrain from stylistic changes, although I can consider those if justified enough. Get your revisions to me in one week’s time, by Thursday, October 19th.

As with its companion in a moment, that email sent actually maybe an hour earlier Wednesday morning, there turned out to be no corrections needed — although there was one thing I wanted to double check on a library computer Thursday. The publication, a scholarly one, SPECULATIVE POETRY AND THE MODERN ALLITERATIVE REVIVAL (see June 24, 2022; April 29, 2021, et al.), with two poems of mine in it, “The Westfarer,” originally published in DARK DESTINY: PROPRIETORS OF FATE (White Wolf, 1995) and “The Worm in the Wood,” STAR*LINE, May-June 2001, about viking exploration and werewolves, and Arthurian legend, respectively.

And then the “companion,” from Editor Tom Wolosz: Attached is the RH VI ebook set to be released October 31st. It is formatted for a kindle so if you look it over in google docs or some other reader the formatting might be a bit off. Please give your story one more look, and if there are any glaring typos let me know by October 20th so I can make last minute corrections. If you would like a PDF version, please let me know.

I did need the PDF as it turned out, which was quickly sent when I emailed back. The book this time: THE RABBIT HOLE, VOL. VI (cf. September 18, et al.), a charity anthology with proceeds to go in part to the Against Malaria Foundation, and my story in it, “Marcie and Her Sisters,” originally published in REEL DARK (BlackWyrm Publishing, 2015).

And again no corrections required, but by the time I’d finished it nearly midnight, it waited until today, Thursday, with both returned to their publishers this afternoon. With more to come here in each case when it’s known.