Disaster Averted

Well, the people at Fry's Electronics came through, and yes, they saved all my files. Whew. And the first thing I did after I brought my computer home was put the latest versions of my manuscripts on not one, but two different flash drives. As I said before, I used to do this every time I updated my manuscripts, but that was when I was in the process of writing them or revising them. But I had stopped doing that last summer, and the latest version of Killer Eyes might have been lost when my Sony Vaio crashed last week. That would have been the worst thing. But losing the last two weeks of going over my edits on The Vase would have been somewhat discouraging, too.

But none of that is the case. All my files were saved, and now they're backed up, and everything is okay. So I'm reviewing all my edits again, and once I reach where I left off, I'll finish this with the knowledge that The Vase is as good as it can possibly be. And that is because of Penumbra's staunch literary standards. I'm very pleased their top editor has such a high stake in my book. He is obviously vested in it, seemingly as much as I am. And that's what it takes to make a book the best it can be. Your editor has to be committed to it as much as you are. And apparently he is.