FINISHED!!!!!

We're done! The book went off today to the publisher. Lil and Sue are excited, nervous, exhausted, hopeful, and wondering what will happen next. This process will take several months. We will have conversations with our production associate about starting chapters on the right, special fonts we used in special places, and other assorted minutia. We don't know how long we will have to wait for the proof, but we know we will only have 14 days in which to make corrections--a scary prospect. We also know that the president of the publishing company has taken a special interest in this book. Do you think this is because she knows Oprah is interested?

We will miss driving back and forth, working together two or three times a week, or even working on the phone with Lil in Andover and Sue in San Diego, Lil in Andover and Sue in Los Angeles, Lil in Andover and Sue in.... you get the drift. Tomorrow Lil can focus her energies on her new clients, and Sue is on yet another airplane. But we will start our days knowing that When Sex Isn't Good is one day closer to being in your hands. Thank you for all your interest and support.

Our Web site was recently updated (thanks Jeremy and Lauren) so check out the corrected table of contents. As soon as our first appearance is booked we will let you know! In the meantime, stay healthy and keep visiting because we will continue to give you updates.

Progressing

We are excited to be able to update you. Lil and Sue have now reread Part I and will finish making those corrections tomorrow. While we had hoped to get When Sex Isn't Good off to the publisher tomorrow, we are now aiming for Monday. As usual of late, we have been working independently and on the phone, as Lil has been in freezing Massachusetts and Sue has been in balmy Southern California, on business and visiting family.

We have had the Web site for the book updated recently, so feel free to check it out again, and send the URL to all your friends.

Still here!

By now you must have thought we forgot all about you, our family, friends and readers. We have taken a little time off, but have been working in different parts of the world. Having read through all the stories, making small corrections in most and a few major overhauls of others, we set those aside to work on Part II of When Sex Isn't Good. So Lil in Massachusetts in Sue in the Caribbean have read the medical sections separately, and this week will compare notes. If we can keep on schedule, getting through all of Part II this week, and rereading Part I separately so that we can make any last changes on that next week, we hope to have the book to the publisher before the end of the month. Of course the biggest problem we are having is that each of us is writing our own acknowledgments, and we can't seem to quite finish those. That's because we have so many people to thank, and we know we will leave someone out by accident, and don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. So let us say right now, thank you to all of you who have read, encouraged, supported, asked, loved, and been there for us through this project. We appreciate all you have done and all you will do.