Practice Tests and Advance Reading Copies
Quick update on my two current obsessions, the medical licensing exam and the release of Spellwright.
Though the amount of material yet-to-be-crammed is daunting, I took a few practice tests to gauge my speed. Sadly, my disability hasn’t gone anywhere. I’m slow…but not as slow as I had feared. It gives me hope that even if my appeal is denied, that I’ll be able to train myself to go fast enough. The sad part of that would be the months of summer wasted on multiple choice and speed stress. Keep all appendages crossed for me.
The other news is even more heartening: after what seems like a lifetime of revising Spellwright for Tor, I have finally received word that the last manuscript was up to snuff. In a week or two, we’re expecting bound manuscripts (a form of Advance Reading Copy, ARC) to be shipped out to established fantasy authors in hopes of impressing them enough to put a quote on the dust jacket. If perhaps you didn’t cross all possible appendages before, now’s the time to do so.
More details later.
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One Response to “Practice Tests and Advance Reading Copies”
Jeremy Tolbert
10:41 pm Mar-2-2009
Hey Blake,
Can you get an ARC sent my way? You don’t want me for a blurb probably, but I want to read it and possibly review it. I’m intrigued by the premise.