The Editor wants a few gentle tweaks here and there. Not that Sistertech thought the tome would require anything near the proofreading that was done on The Document. The all-nighter’s we had around here were not to be believed! It’s truly a miracle that any of us made it through it.
I’m taking the bold move of self-publishing. You see The Publishing Department is very busy now with an authorized re-release of The Document. You’d have thought The Document would be “dabble proof”, but apparently not. Every month or so there’s yet another authorized re-release of The Document. (There’s no telling how many unauthorized versions there are.) Sistertech is fine with the version she has had for the past several hundred years, thank you. I have no plans to switch “brands” at this late date. Do you suffer the same shock to your system when reading those so-called “new and improved” versions of the beloved Psalm 23? “Mangled” is too kind a term. Every shred of poetry is wrenched from its verses.
There will not be this problem with Sistertech’s The Book of Uncommon Prayer. Sistertech’s magnum opus, I mean, manuscript, is a modest 200 or so pages. It is full of the most heartfelt, time honored prayers and passages from The Document. The guidance, inspiration, and comfort therein were especially written with the contemporary computer user in mind. Who could find any reason to lay a revisionary hand upon it?
The release date is March 1. There was some concern about having the release during Lent. Once I assured The Legal Department that there was a fair amount of penitential material, they signed off on it.
Legal. Now they’re a quite a bunch! So many people are afraid of a summons from The Legal Department. Phooey! Sistertech has got them wrapped around her smallest pinion! Why they’re still going in circles over various alleged breaches made they think were made by our Creative Commons franchisees. They’d rather not see me waltzing through their doors. I told them in the beginning that it was a lost cause and that they should drop the matter entirely. It’s been years and they still have not rendered a decision about which of the “Some Rights Reserved” are actually reserved.
I’m planning a special surprise before the official release. Stay tuned!