Besides being a town in CA where a couple of friends of mine live, eureka! means my editor says we're done.

This has been a particularly long editing process -- since June -- and has gone deeply into the book, altering some major scenes, adding new ones, changing the order of chapters, and going back and forth about cuts and, on the micro level, substitutions of one adjective for another. I suspect (and have heard) that this is the way my new editor works, looking for the essence of the book, working to bring that out. My editor at my former publisher was very good, but this is work at a different level. An editor like the one I'm working with now becomes a sort of lens through which the writer can see what's really in the book, not what you meant to put there and think is there. Once you see, through the editor's reactions and suggestions, what's actually there, you can find ways to make the book into the one you started out to write.

From here on the process is more technical, involving the copy-edit, the cover, the photo, etc. I'll be posting on that as it happens.