Dear Brinton,<br /><br />Here his your manuscript. Please not that the editing is not complete. Your story and dialogue are excellent and do not need much work--even the flashbacks and tense changes are handled deftly, which is no easy task--but the formatting is a challenge. It is very time-consuming to remove the name of a speaker of dialogue and add quotation marks for nearly every line in the book, and I need to finish doing this for the last thirty pages or so. This type of thing is difficult to gauge when basing a due date on word count alone.&nbsp;<br /><br />I would ask that you begin to look at the edits and make note of any questions you might have, and I will have the complete edit back to you by this time tomorrow.&nbsp;<br /><br />I hope this is okay, and I apologize for any inconvenience it might cause.<br /><br />Thank you,<br /><br />Laura Kenney