Copy Edits & A Tale of Two Matchmakers

Resurfacing briefly to say "HELLO!!!" and "Please forgive me for being scarce in the blogosphere this week..."

My copy edits for Friday Mornings at Nine arrived last week and I only have about 8 days to read through them, fix anything and everything I want changed and get it back in the mail to Kensington. This requires (for me) reading through the whole manuscript about 3 times: checking the copy editor's changes (first pass, quickly), making my changes (second pass, v.e.r.y slowly), checkin...