March 2011: All
work on Book 4 stops. The revision
letter for Book 3 arrives. On top of
that… this round will be electronically done.
I’m not afraid but I’ve never done this before. The editor is being a doll and giving me some
help on how “Track Changes” works.
I’m not panicking.
I do take my time and move through the manuscript addressing the
editor’s comments and making corrections. I truly value her “new pair of eyes”
looking at my story and I believe this will make the book better.
And there is something new… the publisher has moved from
the “old” way of calculating word count to using the “actual/digital” word
count. This makes my story 8,000 words
short. This means I need a few more scenes.
Yeah, it’s gonna take a bit of work. I’ve only got a
couple weeks.