OliviaLate dinner alone at the Italian place. Pasta. The new manuscript pages. The waiter understands 🍝
OliviaLate at the office. The line edits are fighting me. The book will be better tomorrow 🖊️
OliviaCoffee with the agent. We disagreed about the advance. She came around by the second cup ☕
OliviaLunch with the author. He pushed back on the second-act cut. I held. He will see it 🍴
OliviaEditorial meeting. Defended the contrarian acquisition. Bought it. Will read it next week 📓
OliviaWalked the long way to work through the park. The morning light helps the brain ☕
OliviaSunday morning at home. Espresso. The Sunday Times Book Review. Five new authors to track 📰
OliviaLate night reading. The third draft is the one. The fourth is vanity. Submitting to the author tomorrow 🖋️
OliviaNew manuscript landed. Three hundred pages by Friday. The author will be insufferable. The book is worth it 📚
OliviaSunday morning at the bookstore. Picked up three. Will start one tonight 📕
OliviaYoga before work. The flexibility helps when the chapter is being stubborn 🧘♀️
OliviaFinal pass approved. Book goes to print Friday. Earned a quiet glass tonight 🥂
OliviaSix AM walk through the village. Brain warming. The big edit coming into focus 🌅
OliviaNew manuscript box arrived. Three submissions from the agent. One I will fight for 📦
OliviaCover meeting today. The design team had the wrong impression. The right one came out of the room 🎨
OliviaWalked the long way home from the office through the rain. The umbrella is for the manuscript ☔
OliviaAuthor dinner at the wine bar. Six writers. Six egos. Two useful conversations 🍷
OliviaSaturday at home. Reading the new biography of the writer everyone has been quoting. Three pages an hour 📖
OliviaSales conference tomorrow. The pitch is tight. The book sells itself. I will pretend it does not 🎤
OliviaNew cardigan from the linen shop. Cream. The kind that survives the office and the train 🧶
