Excited to say the edit suggestions for my story ‘Bloodthirsty’ landed in my email inbox yesterday! Very happy to see that most of them were just minor word or punctuation changes–just little things to enhance the prose.

There were also some language differences to address. Today, I learned that Canada/America prefer forward/backward over forwards/backwards! (It also turns out I use those words a lot, so bless the editor for going through and deleting all those rogue ‘s’ endings.) There is also grey vs. gray, which I did know about, I just sort of forgot to change…

I also learned a new concept, which my editor called ‘ The Independent Body Rule’. Turns out there were just a few times at the beginning of the story where my character’s body parts–specifically the eyes, it was always the eyes–seemed to be acting of their own accord. Eyes just snapping open or blinking of their volition. I’ve never really given it much thought before, so it was interesting to learn. Now I have a new writing rule to remember in the future: Body parts don’t have agency, characters do.

Anyway: one step closer to publication!