Burden of Proof

So yesterday was a banner day for one simple reason: my very first page proofs. There’s something incredibly exciting about looking over something you wrote as it’s meant to be seen in print: the typesetting, the bio and perhaps best of all, your name and story listed in the table of contents. Especially considering the august company I’ll be included with.

And as much as I love what the Internet can do for publishing short mystery fiction, I think I’m beginning to get it: there’s something altogether cool about seeing things in print.

So what was it like for the rest of you to get those proofs in the mail, open them and see your words on the page? Even if you had to mark things up and tell them what they got wrong, was it still a thrill?

And am I going to be this big a geek once I get the finished copy of the book?