Crunch!

That would be a time crunch! But first off, welcome back! It has been far too long since we’ve posted. We apologize, but it was a lethal combination of busy lives and not much action on the book-front. Once everything was shipped off and we started getting distracted by other things, the blog suffered.

Then why now? Because on Wednesday we got our book proofs from Arcadia!

Wow! How fantastic to see everything put together and laid out in one book-like package. It truly was mind-blowing. It was also a very proud moment. We created this!

But quickly we had to snap back to reality and get to work. We only have seven days to correct and return the proofs. There was some frantic research and lots of reading and rereading and discussing. It was also nice to read through the entire manuscript after not working on it for such a long time. We had been able to put everything behind us at the end of September. It was good to read and think about how we would make improvements and what little words or phrases we simply didn’t like. It was refreshing and we feel like the book is now even better. Yes, it has been a hectic week with lots of unexpected work (we didn’t know when we were getting our proofs, they simply appeared one day), but we are excited to get everything returned and see the final approval set in the near future.

We are also going to get better about blogging. Promise. We have to do something to help vent our excitement about our upcoming book release!