Tag: if we were villains

Lo! a website makeover

~ M. L. Rio

As some of you may have noticed, the whole website got treated to a facelift today. The primary reason for that is that things are picking up in Camp IWWV. Here’s a brief update:

  • Reviews! We have some advance praise for Villains, which I am so excited and so humbled to share with you. If you want to hear what some amazing early readers had to say, you can check out the shiny new If We Were Villains page.
  • PRE-ORDERING! That’s right! You can now pre-order If We Were Villains from a variety of retailers and have it on your doorstep the day it comes out. I would love you if you did. To do that, click here.
  • Cover art. Not to tease you, but it’s coming. Soon.
  • Chatter. If you want to chat about the book, you can send me any question you like on Tumblr.

In the meantime, if you want to get all possible information as soon as I have it, you can track my movements on social media. Just browse that handy new sidebar to the right of this post. Please like and share with abandon! Every little click helps.

–M

First pass proof!

~ M. L. Rio

This fat stack of paper arrived from the folks at Flatiron Books today. Now’s when we go through the whole MS with a fine-tooth comb, looking for every last little fix and adjusting the formatting where needed. But this is pretty much what the inside of the hardcover will look like, and that’s exciting.

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I’ll be hard at work on this for the next week or so. I’ve gone through Act I already this morning and it’s a bit like an out-of-body experience, because it’s been a while since I read through the whole text–long enough that I can almost pretend I didn’t write it, and read it as a reader.

Getting closer all the time.

RBM

~ M. L. Rio

My wonderful editor Christine Kopprasch just sent me a photo of If We Were Villains in its newest incarnation as an RBM–no cover art yet, but I am beyond excited to see this. It’s starting to look like a real book!

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Production Draft!

~ M. L. Rio

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So, it’s been pretty quiet here for a while, and that’s because I’ve been hard at work on the last revisions for Villains. And with the help of copious amounts of coffee and five (count ’em, five) different editions of King Lear, I got my final final draft turned in to my editor today! Which means that we’re one step closer to the finish line. There’s still a lot to be done, but now that the text itself can be handed over to copy editors, we get to start talking about fun stuff like art and blurbs and rough front. More soon.