The book proofs came in yesterday. Today I got up, still under the weather from a sore throat/chest cold (gotta' LOVE summer colds, le'sigh), and looked at my desk. Yep, not a dream, the hard copy is still sitting there. The "proof" isn't the final product...but it's close. It is the point where the last…
So after an italics goof and subsequent catch by FB buddy and fellow author Kellie after I posted a version of this to facebook, the revised and updated cover is off to Createspace for re-re-re-aproval. Thanks to my friend and outstanding cover art guru-mojo-guy Rob for the cover and subsequent outstanding band-aid fix! I finally…
The marathon editing phase is now done. No huge big monstrous plaid-speed changes to the first novel, but more or less a bug hunt, tracking down misspellings, double periods, oops-I-hit-the-spacebar twices, and a couple of minor editorial/structural changes here and there to better reflect the narrative a bit more clearly. A few tiny changes…