I either get it right or I throw it out. But hundreds and hundreds of people do drafts and make it work, it's just that I don't, nine and sixty ways. I find my way quite annoying sometimes. It's just the way I do it.

About editing and copy-editing, I probably shouldn't say anything here, but it seems to me for various reasons that it was significantly less edited at several levels than my other novels. But OK. I'm glad you liked it.