Cat-Skinner Sweet Edited Copy Received, Returned

A snowy day, Monday — not a blizzard to be sure, but covering enough to keep one inside. At least for the day. And received on email, re. “Cat-Skinner Sweet and the Twirling Teacups of Deadwood City” (see December 16): Here is your story with the edits included on the document. They’re all fairly straight forward, with some from both my polishing editor and myself. I’ve added comments where any extra explanation is beneficial.

So far, so good. It goes on to say, [p]lease keep the Track Changes feature on so I can see whatever changes you make when you resave it and send it back to me. Just click accept for changes you’re fine with. If you reject any edits, please make a comment there with a reason why, so I can quickly find anything that is rejected (as I can’t see that easily on my end for some reason). If you can try your best to get the edits completed and the file sent back to me by Jan 12th, that would be incredible. And making by the 12th would be no problem, albeit it would have to be done at the library (it being beyond the “pay grade” of the Windows 7 home computer). So it would have to wait till Tuesday.

But again, no problem — and so, done and done. The publication, FORGETTING SOMETHING, an anthology with a humorous bent. And “Cat-Skinner Sweet” a western-style tall tale about alien mice and . . . well, maybe we should wait until it’s out and you can see for yourself. But, back to the edits, with everything checked and sent back today.