Sunday 23 June 2013

The Big Edit

I had already started The Big Edit before I saw the link below. But it was comforting to see that I am on the right track. So here's the latest.......

A couple of weeks ago I had had a message from the previously mentioned (but un-named) publisher, reducing the price for publication and offering payment by instalments. I have politely declined, as that is not the way that I hoped publication of my book would go, but thanked them sincerely for their interest and strengthened my resolve to continue. Now that my children have finished with college for the time being, I have a bit more time to bury my head back in my work.

And so The Big Edit has begun. I have a range of ideas, and whilst Albie is taking a back seat for the time being, work on the editing of Sadie is underway. I am making changes to the beginning, culling unnecessary parts without losing the integrity of the story and adding one or two features that I feel enhance and develop the story that bit further. So far it is going well, and I am very happy with the results. I will then start to submit to publishers again when I have finished.

I have said all along that I am not in a rush; it took me this long to write a book in the first place, I am not desperate to publish as soon as possible, at any cost. but I do still have self publishing at the back of my mind, and I am happy that if needs must, then that is the way I will go. But I have to say, I love my book, it is the book I would choose to read and I am proud of it.

The rest will follow in its own time.

So good luck to fellow writers in the same boat. Keep going, always believe, and like I said before, anything is possible!!!

Have a great week! x

http://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/2013/06/how-i-self-edit-my-novels-15-steps-from.html