Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Editing, Editing & More Editing

Jennifer gives an update...

I’ve been buried in my editing cave for the past several weeks, and I’m just now coming up for air. What have I been working on? Glad you asked! J

For the past few years, I’ve been working on a new series that I hope to start pitching in the near future. So I was editing books one and two to try to get them into shape. I’m hoping I was successful. I still have book 3 to revise—and it needs some serious revisions—and book four to write. This is a series I work on in my spare time (ha!), so it’s taken a while to get up and running.


I finally received my galleys for Five Minutes to Love from my editor, so I spent a week scouring the manuscript for misspelled words, additional or missing words (like a double “is,” for example), spacing issues or punctuation mistakes. My eyes are buggy, but I think I caught everything. Next step is to make sure they corrected all the errors and then I will have a release date. In the meantime, Addicted to Love, the first book in this series, is on sale this month for 99 cents. So it's a great time to pick it up!

I’ve also been re-editing my first book, A Heart of Little Faith. The publisher who had it is getting out of the business this summer, so I took my rights back and will try my hand at self-publishing that title (and maybe one other). I’m curious to see how it compares to other means of publishing, and I like the idea of being a hybrid author. So I sent the manuscript out to an editor, she has come back with fantastic changes, and I’m slowly going through them, making the book stronger. Next step will be copyedits.

And that, my friends, is what I’ve been up to lately. Hoping to have some news soon!


Oh, and happy birthday to Debra! J

6 comments:

  1. Thanks for the wishes!

    You have been busy, busy, busy! I love the advert for Addicted to Love!

    Series are always my favorite reads (and writes!), so I'm excited to hear you're working on one.

    I'll be curious to see what you think of self-publishing. I have a friend who does it. i just don't know if I'd have the talent to accomplish it.

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    1. I'm not sure I do, either, Deb, but my alternative is letting this book fade into oblivion or try self-publishing. So I'm going for it. I'll let you know what happens.

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  2. Sounds like you're busy! Good luck with all your editing and, like Debra, I'll be interested to know how you find self-publishing. Fortunately my new publisher is willing to take all my backlist, so I don't have to embark on that learning curve!

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    1. I'm so happy for you for the way things turned out!

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  3. Wow. I'm impressed with all your work. I think we're all curious to hear how the self-pub turns out. You can be our guinea-pig! :D

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    1. Oh goodie! :) I figure I have nothing to lose. It's either self pub them or let them sit in the dust doing nothing.

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