RevisingA collection of 3 posts

From my agent, a generally positive assessment of the third draft of The Accidental Terrorist: I've read your revision and I'm pretty darn happy with it. I think you've done...

Okay, I've taken the memoir about as far down as I can go now, from 947 pages to 833. That a little more than 12% shrinkage, or almost an eighth of the book. Wow!...

So my agent has an editor at HarperCollins interested in the memoir. Unfortunately, a different Harper editor has already rejected it, so the title has to change for this new submission. Therefore, the book henceforth is...