And lived to tell the tale! Thanks!

Thank you!

OMG! what a terrific comment, Deleyna! It's the first from a publisher, and it provides excellent tips. I have been guilty of saying, "I know it's galleys, but can I just add a sentence here . . . " To his credit, I am still alive, my publisher did not kill me.
About the dates in yyyy/mm/dd format -- I'm adopting that! Excellent. It reminds me of a time in the late 90's when the firm I worked for rented me out to Rand Paul Consulting for a job at Southern California Edison in Rosemead. It was the peak of the "It's the end of the century! The computers will all go crazy!" One of the techies I was working with said his mother was a COBOL programmer who had come out of retirement to go through lines of code looking for dates.
Thanks, Deleyna.

Love this post!

Another tip one of my clients pointed out that I'll share: if we date things in yyyy-mm-dd format, they sort better and we're less likely to get an old version. Wish I'd learned that many years ago!

Karen, thank you for telling us about Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived. It sounds like it will be inspirational. Good luck!

Thanks for your encouragement, James, and for the prompt! My memoir, to be released by Apprentice House Press in May, is "Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived," about my naive expectations of motherhood and inability to assert myself, even when my young son’s survival depends on it. As you might guess, I'm having many last-minute second guesses about certain passages and how I tell my story. I love the idea that, if I'm careful, I still have some wiggle room. Continued best on your prolific output!

Congratulations, Karen! That's a real accomplishment. Now the work starts . . . LOL Nah, you'll enjoy one more pass through your book. (And BTW, what's the title? Never too early to mention it.) One detail that did not make it into my finished essay is that you can do minor edits and not damage the ms if you are very, very careful about adding or subtracting a line or paragraph. So, yes, you can substitute one six-letter word for another but my advice is be careful.
Good luck and congratulations again!

Wow, sounds, uh, challenging. But at least you stuck it out and your story made it into print. That's a real accomplishment.
Thanks!