{"id":147,"date":"2009-09-16T11:12:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T15:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2009-09-16T17:12:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T21:12:59","slug":"meeting-my-editor-exploring-uncharted-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Meeting My Editor: Exploring Uncharted Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Yesterday was an incredible day. I had lunch with my agent, Margaret, and my editor, Claire. We sat at a table for four, so\u00a0I liked to think that my character, <span id=\"lw_1253113747_0\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"cursor: hand; border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed;\">Eleanor of Aquitaine,<\/span> sat in the\u00a0fourth chair, at least in spirit. (Writers have crazy ideas like this&#8230;those of you who follow the lure of storytelling may know what I mean.)<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>We discussed the next book, TO BE QUEEN, and marketing ideas for THE QUEEN&#8217;S PAWN. As we talked, the ideas kept flowing and I kept taking notes between bites of burger and fries. (No cute little salad for me, in spite of my\u00a0initial good intentions. I love real food. What can I say?)<\/div>\n<div>We ironed out ideas for Eleanor&#8217;s next adventures, and things came clear that had been cloudy for me before. I was reminded again of how important a good editor is, of how a keen eye and a gift for steering a storyteller can bring out the best in a writer, this time in me. Though I had not seen my editor in almost a year, I sank roots deeper into the idea that I am not in this alone. Though Eleanor and I have taken ship on uncharted seas, I have a radio on board, and I can talk to Claire. She can give advice when the seas rise and the ship looks like it will sink. Between the steady gaze of Claire and the\u00a0wonders of Eleanor&#8217;s life, I find myself in good hands indeed. Here&#8217;s to the sea, the open sky, and <span id=\"lw_1253113747_1\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; cursor: hand; border-bottom: medium none;\">uncharted waters<\/span>. I look forward to seeing what I will bring back.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was an incredible day. I had lunch with my agent, Margaret, and my editor, Claire. We sat at a table for four, so\u00a0I liked to think that my character, Eleanor of Aquitaine, sat in the\u00a0fourth chair, at least in spirit. (Writers have crazy ideas like this&#8230;those of you who follow the lure of storytelling &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=147\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meeting My Editor: Exploring Uncharted Waters<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1601,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/1601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}