I finished Biscuit a couple of weeks ago.
Let me rephrase. I finished a major revision a couple of weeks ago. It's now in the hands of an editor, and once that's done, I intend to try to find a traditional publisher.
In the meantime, I had four copies of the book printed and bound, just as souvenirs for my family and me. It's not for sale anywhere, nor will it ever be. It's still an unpublished manuscript. And someday, I hope that it will be published for real.
And because this was just for me, it's not just any version, but the version that is the most blue-sky, the most ... mine. If I could have whatever I want, this is what I'd include:
- A nice, large 11-point font, with a wide 1.2 line spacing (the extra space between lines makes it more pleasant to read, but it adds to the page count).
- All 160,000 words of the story, before anyone makes me cut it down by 20k-30k words
- A glossary
- A letter from my grandfather written after the war
- An essay written by my grandfather about the day he became a US citizen
- Afterword
- A list of foreign phrases and their translations.
- A metric-imperial conversion table.
Anyway, I got my copy, and it makes my heart go pitter-patter. Almost five years of work went into it, and it's looking good. It feels good, and I'm proud of it.
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