At seven I got the book, fully designed, so I began proofing then and that's what I have literally been doing all night. I am so bored of proofing and I probably shouldn't even be doing it but for this stage it has to be me. All I should be finding are things that got screwy when Grant formatted it - this happens on every book - it's mostly some bad breaks, some hyphens that didn't get turned into em dashes and for whatever reason it happens a couple of lines that split in a way that they shouldn't have. But of course I also found a few things no one had caught and thankfully fixed those, mostly do with quote marks, and I rewrote about five words so they flowed better and found one repeated laugh line and nuked that. I'm not quite finished yet, but will before I abed. Then at eleven tomorrow I drop off the book to the final blurber and then I go directly to Grant to enter all the fixes and then we're done and just waiting for the blurbs - if I have all those by Monday, which is what I'm hoping for, then the book will go in on Tuesday.
