The copyediting of Good Day in Hell is done, at least for now. My style is, apparently, somewhat eccentric to your average copyeditor, so it was a lot of work putting back in the little stylistic touches that had been stripped out: the flashbacks rendered in italics, shouting rendered as ALL CAPS rather than italics(a holdover from all those nights on the Internets, I guess).
I keep thinking back to the books I've read by sci-fi writer Alfred Bester, who liked to use words to literally draw pictures on the page (check out the telepath cocktail party scene in The Demolished Man for example). Now, I keep thinking, "Man, Bester must have given his copyeditor fits."
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