Category Archives: editing

Blood Trade: Editing Halfway Done

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As I write this, I’m exactly halfway through the final editing of Blood Trade, though since I’m a few days ahead on my blog posts, hopefully I’m all the way through by the time you read this.  For some reason, this book really takes it out of me.  It’s sucking away my soul like the vampires it contains when I work on it.  Therefore I can only manage to edit a chapter at a time.

As soon as the book comes out I will let you know here.  It will be available as an ebook for $2.99.  I also eventually plan to have a paperback as well.  It will carry an adult only warning, because of sex, violence, and profanity throughout.

Observant visitors will notice that Blood Trade already has a book link to the right and is already available for sale at Smashwords and Amazon.

Blood Trade: Coming in September

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Just a couple of days ago, I was saying that Blood Trade would have a November release.  I don’t know why, but I was being grossly conservative.  As I write this, the last revisions are all done, and I’m in final editing.  It may take me a week or two, but definitely September.

Revision and Editing

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As I work on finishing Women of Power, just a bit about the revision and editing process.  As I write, I solicite alpha readers (friends, family, and members of my writers’ group) to give me feedback as I go.  I make major changes as I go along– adding, cutting, moving sections around.  When the entire first draft is done, I have my beta readers (often but not always the same people) go back to it.  At this point, I’m not editing.  I’m revising.  I’m looking for changes to be made in the storytelling.

Once I’ve got the manuscript the way I want it, I give it a few editing passes.  Editing is much harder to do on your own manuscript because you know it.  You’re very likely to skip over errors because you know what’s supposed to be there.  If possible, I have my crack team of grammarians go over the manuscript again.  My final pass uses the program Text2Go to read the manuscript aloud to me as I follow along in the text.  I’ve caught many errors that I missed and many that editors missed.

Once all that is done and my story is ready to go out, it’s a quick trip through the formatting machine (That’s me.  I format it myself.) and then it’s available to ebook lovers everywhere.

His Robot Girlfriend – Second Edition

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As I mentioned the other day, I am working on the second edition of His Robot Girlfriend.  I’ve finished revising the second chapter and as soon as I’m done with all ten, I’ll start listening to it being read.  Not too many changes so far– two typos, and one actual mistake, two revisions (tweaking things to make them make more sense).  What I can’t believe is how comma-crazy I was.  I’ve deleted about 30 commas so far and the story still has a few more than it would if I wrote it today.  Oh well, learning and improving is what life is all about, right?,,,,

His Robot Girlfriend – New Edit

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I’ve just finished the re-edit of His Robot Girlfriend. You can download updated ebook by following the links to the right. The paper book versions will be following. There were a total of thirty-two mistakes corrected. I hope that was all of them.

Re-editing His Robot Girlfriend

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I am hard at work on the re-edit of His Robot Girlfriend. Thanks to Andy Berdan who sent me a list of corrections to be made. I’ve found a few more and I’m only through chapter three. As soon as I’m done, I’ll be updating those files at all the downloading sites as well as sending a new copy of the manuscript to Lulu for those purchasing the paperback or hardback.

Editing Eternally

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Editing is a big job. I finished the draft of The Steel Dragon last February, went through several revisions, and then set about trying to edit it. I made corrections all through the spring and summer, I had ten other people read it and edit for me, and I am still finding errors to fix. Having others edit really helped, as when you read your own material you don’t read it as closely since you know what you’ve written. Still, it’s a big job and one that has to be done. I was working on still one more editing pass the other day after school when a young lady came by my classroom to see me. She asked me how many times I had gone through my book. When I replied that it was probably at least twenty times, she asked “How can you read your own book twenty times?” I replied that if I wasn’t willing to read it, how could I expect others to.