Firefly novel from Brust: free for the reading

[netmouse]

skzbrust has released as fanfic his Firefly novel, My Own Kind Of Freedom, under a creative commons license.

I had the unique experience of copyediting an early draft of the novel with Steve, unique in that we sat on the phone, he in Nevada, I in Michigan, and discussed how to best fix all the errors and problems spots I identified (we were using collaborative software, both viewing a document as I was changing it). Usually a copyeditor only gets to highlight and query, not knowing how the author will respond to each point. I got to sit there and get confirmation of my corrections and also see the process when the author said, "You know, that whole section doesn't make sense, and it's because I left out this part I meant to put in the last chapter. Let's go back and do that."

It was a joy to work with Brust on that project, and I hope everyone enjoys the book as much as he clearly enjoyed writing it and I enjoyed editing it. Actually, I'm sure you will-- Steve's special delight during our collaboration was in hearing me chuckle and finding out where what he wrote worked. And it does. :)

Comments

txt version

[greyhat.livejournal.com]

Hey, will this be of any help? I made a txt version and stripped the pretty stuff off.

http://devon.intranet.org/my%20own%20kind%20of%20freedom.txt
or http://devon.intranet.org/freedom.txt if the first link does not work correctly.

Palm version

[greyhat.livejournal.com]

also this:
http://devon.intranet.org/My_Own_Kind_of_Freedom_-_Brust.pdb
made with TealDoc's converter.