Emma White

And the through line, which I think was helpful, was pacing.

And

in any kind of nonlinear or dual timeline, everything needing to be equally compelling.

And so that was something for me to really pay attention to with manuscript three was in the first two manuscripts, pacing had been an issue and not having equal interest in either both characters or in both timelines.

So trying to have a more even handed approach, but I find pacing, it's very hard or keeping, keeping things even extremely challenging.

So still something I'm working on today.

So we did one round of edits.

I signed with her in June of 2024 and early July.

She came back to me with her notes.

So there were a few things that she thought could be strengthened before we went out.

I worked on those over the summer and we took it out in early September.

So it was one substantive round.

And then we wanted to wait till the beginning of fall when it was people are back from vacation.

And so then we went out on 7 September and very, very fortunate sold it a few weeks later to HarperCollins Canada in October 2024.

We did a few rounds of edits.

We had a couple of phone calls as well, which I found.

We did an introductory meeting to talk about her larger vision for the book in areas she thought needed work.

And then based on that, she sent me her editorial letter.

But then that was really nice to combo that with a phone call to talk through that.

Fortunately, I had a really excellent editorial experience where our visions really aligned and I felt like her suggestions made everything stronger.