![]() ![]() I also cataloged his music collection, and kept the existing catalog of movies updated. Jim had a massive personal library, and mentioned that he would love for it to be cataloged I cobbled together a classification system, using WordPerfect mail merge. ![]() I don't know if any of my edits made it into the final book, but Harriet did begin recommending me for freelance editing. Harriet encouraged me to edit as well, and I would do that and pass the pages on to her. ![]() He also would give me lists of questions like "Has character A ever met Character B?" and "Give me three examples of character C's speech" and "Find me all of the information you can on what a baby feels as he's being born." By the time he had The Path of Daggers ready to give to Harriet for editing, I had convinced him that I could help with maintaining our house glossary going forward, and he decided that I would get the pages at the same time Harriet did. He gave me the in-house glossary to tidy up, and some of his notes to consolidate. ![]() Over the next year or so, though, my job broadened. At that time, Jim was finishing up A Crown of Swords, and when the proofs came in, Harriet suggested that I assist in going through them, but Jim said no, he didn't want to spoil me. Jim decided that I could do that, so, much to my delight, I was getting paid to read The Wheel of Time. Then the audiobook project got underway, and someone had to go through and mark all of the changes in point of view so that Michael Kramer could read the male POVs and Kate Reading could read the female ones. ![]()
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