Meta-documents and good news.

Inspired by both Tansy Rayner Roberts (http://tansyrr.com/tansywp/art-of-meta-document/) and Scott Westerfeld (http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/?p=1899), I’m going to take advantage of the sweet spot I’m in with the trilogy to work on my own meta-documents for Balance of Power.

Right now, I’m waiting on edits for Love in Control, I’ve got people reading Freedom to Be and I’m about to dive into the first re-write of Chance and Reward. This, therefore, seems a perfect time to make sure I’ve got control over things like timelines, glossaries and so on.

It also is something that can be put down, so if the edits arrive I can easily get stuck straight into them, as opposed to starting writing Chance and Reward and then finding I have to put it aside, which I wouldn’t like doing.

So that’s the plan for this week.

And in other news – the announcement has just come through that the Federal Government has decided to maintain the status quo and make no changes to parallel importation restrictions. The press announcement from Minister for Competition Craig Emerson said that the Government wasn’t interesting in beginning a new spending program for authors (which the Productivity Commission said would be necessary to offset the negative impact of removing the restrictions on authors and publishers) and that with changes to technology it was pointless to make the changes at the moment (which was the argument I made in my submission to the Commission in January – yay me!). So, things will remain, Australian Publishers will continue to be in a position to support and grow Australian writing talent and hopefully I will soon see my talented friends in the same position that I am – panicking over dead lines :)