I can't do it immediately; right after finishing a book, I think it ALL sucks dead donkey dick (Ahem. Sorry. That may be a little more vivid than anybody needed.) I sent the book to my editor on August first and then didn't think about it except in passing for a month and a half. Thoughts occasionally wandered across my mind. I wrote them down and went on to other thoughts. And even after I got the edit letter Wednesday (which was my predetermined signal that I had to start thinking about the book again), it took me until today to get as far as being able to say, "These are the things that work.

It is NOT a speedy process.