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It’s the Great Pumpkin ~ No… It’s The Curse of Grungy Gulley Release!

That day is upon us. The Curse of Grungy Gulley releases today, October 31, 2014 ~ Halloween! What does a demon do to stop a group of families slated to fight him for eternity when they don’t pay attention to him? Keep trying, of course!


Blurb: Faced with the loss of his immortality, Bewitcher Random A. Ransom has to defeat Mary Barron’s young assistants: Tuck Barrons, Earl Lee Farley, and Sue Anne Edwards. Confidant he can beat three kids, Random has no idea that the Johnson triplets have invaded the ranks of his brethren. These brothers have pledged their souls to Archangel Michael to rid the world of evil. What the Bewitcher thought would be easy isn’t so easy after all.
One demon, three teens, spread over a period of 144 years. Can Random A. Ransom defeat Sue Anne Edwards, Earl Lee Farley, and Tuck Barrons?


The Curse of Grungy Gulley






About the Author:
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in Northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond. She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Some of her short stories have appeared in anthologies, others in magazines. Three of her books (Softly Say Goodbye, Who Am I?, and Mama’s Advice) are Amazon best sellers. Her other books are: Take Chances, Where U @, The Wrong One, Pony Dreams, Evil Eyes, Inits, Canoples Investigations Tackles Space Pirates, The Call Chronicles 1: The Griswold Gang, The Curse of Grungy Gulley, and Starlight. Additionally, she has shorts available on Amazon: Grace, Secret From the Flames, Family Curse … Times Two, Right Wrong Nothing In Between, and The Ghost Catcher.


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Right Wrong Nothing In Between
Pick up a copy of Right Wrong Nothing In Between by clicking on the link and answer these questions. Post your answers on K.C. Sprayberry’s Facebook fan page before November 5, 2014 and you might get your own autographed print edition of The Curse of Grungy Gulley!


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Cover Art ~ A Hint, A Bit of Teasing, But Never Too Much

The very first thing a potential buyer sees about your book is the cover. You have exactly three seconds to capture their attention, and to do that, you must have the best cover possible.
How do you accomplish this? Certainly you can’t be expected to create your own cover art. You’re an author, the person who put their blood, sweat, and tears into writing this fabulous book. Your publisher has a cover artist and that person is going to make a cover for your book, but first they must have your input.
Here’s the tricky part. Most publishers allow you some input into your cover art. You’ll receive a questionnaire that you must fill out. The questions seem simple enough. They want you to describe settings in the book, the characters, important scenes. With great gusto, you dive into writing ten, fifteen, or twenty pages of prose, going into great detail about all of these elements. Since this is the information about your cover, you also include copies of covers that are similar to your book, but of course you want a very different piece of art, a cover that stands out, so you critique those covers. You can’t have an ordinary model. Your main character is far different, so the hair has to be changed, the eyes are the wrong color, the model’s expression must reflect the tone of your book.
Several days later, you sit back and grin. You have everything you want the artist to know about your book in place. It doesn’t matter that the simple questionnaire is now the size of a novella. A cover artist can’t read your mind. They have to know everything. You must orchestrate every step. Then you lean forward to take the next step, editing your words. The editor in chief will probably glance at this. You have to let them know that you’re no slouch in working as hard as possible to direct the cover artist in making the best possible cover.
That’s when you notice the words in the parenthesis for the first time. Your eyebrows shoot up into your hairline. You have to cut your lovely, long treatise into something that is nothing more than two to three sentences long for each question. You can’t include samples and you aren’t allowed to include directions. Who do these people think they are? Have they ever made an award winning cover? Do they even know what they are doing?
You decide to ignore the directions. Those are for people who aren’t as gifted as you are in deciding on the best cover for YOUR book. YOUR book must have a cover to rival those on books by Steven King and J.K. Rowling. You save the form and then email it back.
A few hours later, you receive an email from your editor in chief. Your form is filled out improperly. Please follow the directions and return it, or they shall be forced to pass on the basic information on to the cover artist. The one or two people they have doing cover art simply don’t have the time to sit down and read a book about the cover art.
Well, you huff, this just won’t do at all. You’re furious, but there is a solution. You email the editor in chief back that you’ll just have your own cover art made, at your expense. The response to that infuriates you. You scream the question to your office walls, uncaring though they are.
“What do you mean that I can’t make my own cover art? It’s MY book. It’s MY choice. Who are these people anyway?”
These people are well versed in what does and doesn’t work for a book’s cover. These people know the rules about utilizing print on demand publishing. These people don’t have several days to discern exactly what you want for a cover from your novella length questionnaire. If you are very lucky, the editor in chief has given you a link to the website your publisher uses to select your own image for your cover art. Most of the time, the author doesn’t get much if any input into what kind of cover goes onto their book, unless they’re a multi-published best seller.

Here’s a piece of advice on the best cover art you can describe. Keep it simple. Find an element about your book that is important to the whole theme. That doesn’t necessarily mean you have to use people on the cover. Some of the best covers I’ve seen have been those that have a single object, a scene indicative of what lies behind the cover. Far too many covers lately have people on them, until it seems like they all look alike. Make your cover different but simple. Memorable enough that a person glancing at it will be compelled to look inside—which is the purpose of the cover.

The Editing Process ~ The Knife That Cuts Deep

You have your contract signed. The cover art is totally awesome. For weeks you’ve waited on the editor get start looking over your book, but he or she won’t have much to do. Your book is the most awesome book in creation. There will be little or no problems with it.


Visions of a best seller dance in your head. You’re so focused on this that you are searching for places to let reviewers know the Great American novel has happened, and they must, absolutely, read your book and rate it higher than any other book ever written. Why it’s no not a stretch to ask your publisher to pay for those places that do reviews, like Kirkus or the New York Times. It doesn’t matter that Kirkus charges from $425 to $575 to review a book, with no guarantee when your book will be reviewed or if you’ll have a good review. That the NYT has a large backlist of review requests never even enters your mind. Your book is going to topple every well-known author off their lists, to become the latest book to vie for a place at the top.
Then your editor contacts you. Your book is next up in the queue and they’re already going over the pages. You read the email with your heart in your throat. Dizzy dreams of soon having a best seller on your hands cloud your eyes. You have to read the email a couple of times. What does it mean when the editor says you will have to go through three rounds of editing? Your book is perfect. All this person has to do is sign off and let you get the galleys off to these reviewers. Are they nuts?


Fuming, you dash off an email to the editor in chief in charge of the imprint your book is in. You want this editor fired immediately. They are about to butcher your book. This is not going to happen. When the editor in chief doesn’t immediately bow to your wishes, you’re emailing the publisher, who certainly won’t want such a wonderful book ruined by a hack editor. Yet, even then you don’t get satisfaction, because the same editor in chief you just called every kind of idiot is responding instead of the publisher.
The reality is that every book needs editing, if for nothing more than to check for misspelled or missing words, improper punctuation, or a dropped plot point. Your editor is actually your best friend in this situation. These are things a professional reviewer will notice and say something about. Once a good editor is finished with the process, you will feel like both you and your book have been shaken hard and honed into a work of art. Your book might not make the best seller list, that’s virtually unheard of for first time authors, but you will have a well-written, well-edited piece of work you can be proud to promote. Those who do read your book will be happy to leave a glowing review of your work. You will soon find yourself happy the editor pointed out all those problems and convinced you to accept their suggestions.

Remember that you spend many months or years writing your book. It has to compete with the thousands of books uploaded every month. Therefore, you want the best possible product available. That’s what your editor is for.

The Controller

We’ve all met him or her. From start to finish, they must have absolute control of every single part of whatever project they’re working on. All it takes is one little item going out of their control and they’re ranting all over the place, claiming you personally are out to get them. Nowhere but in the publishing world have I seen so many people suffering from “Control Syndrome” as I have in the publishing world.
Perhaps this problem initiates from the ability of anyone to self-publish a book. Ten, twenty, or thirty years ago, the publishing industry was controlled by a few big houses, who decided which book would be published, what new author would receive their first contract, and how that would happen. Tales still exist regarding expensive luncheons at the publisher’s expense, huge advances that would get the new author out of debt and allow them to live the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and carefully orchestrated nationwide book tours where their adoring fans heaped praise upon them.
As the saying goes, that was then and this is now.
Now is a publisher world where the Big 5 publishers are struggling as hard as a new self-published author attempting to get their novel noticed. And it is a struggle, one we all deal with every single day. Today’s author competes not only to get their novel noticed they also must struggle with a publishing related world to understand how much things have changed. This can be anything from the new ways of dealing with publishers working from virtual offices to the bookstores that won’t allow you to do a signing in their storefront until you are as well-known as Lisa Gardner, Patricia Cornwell, or Steven King.
Now is having some input into how your cover art looks, but ultimately that is under the control of the publisher. Yes, the cover is the first hook you have for a potential buyer, but don’t over think what you want on your cover. Go for simple rather than cluttered. Use a background imaged related to your story rather than the “perfect” models in the “right” action scene. Understand that the cover artist doesn’t need you virtually leaning over their shoulder every second, to be sure they “get” what you want.
Now is a publishing company having a small staff, without a media team to promote your work. More than likely, the e-publishers most authors deal with these days have extremely small staffs, sometimes nothing more than the company’s owner and a few assistants. They literally don’t have the time in one day to deal with one individual who believes they, for whatever reason, needs everyone’s attention twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. And if you think it’s difficult having your book published exactly as you want it, try doing all the things you’re demanding of this small publisher all by yourself.
So, instead of being “The Controller” and making unreasonable demands, listen to your publisher. Many not only take the time to offer suggestions on what has worked for them in selling their work, they are also authors themselves, trying to pound out that next novel. Don’t depend on a small publisher to do all of your promotion work and provide you with a massive advance because you have written the next hot novel while you sit back and pen your next book. Especially, don’t throw temper tantrums because you don’t get your way.

Or do throw that temper tantrum. Do demand what you want. Do act as if you’re the only person important enough to get their attention. You will pay a price you never saw coming.

Social Media Interaction

Social media interaction is absolutely necessary for any author these days. We no longer have access to the publicity department of our publisher. Book tours aren’t set up for us to hit 30 cities in 10 days, in order to sign copies of our book and meet the fans. The expensive luncheon with our publisher while discussing our next book is a long lost dream. What we have now instead is social media, and that can be a very tricky river to navigate.
Most of us have an author fan page on Facebook. Any author worth their salt also has a Twitter page and faithfully visits it, to update about our latest project, encourage people to buy our published books, or to converse with those who make comments we find noteworthy.
We’ve learned the taboos about being an author and sharing information. We now can navigate the waters of our public life while exposing what we want known about our private life. It’s all too easy, but then a pitfall no one warned us about happens across our path, and we’re not certain what to do.
This pitfall can be as simple as someone asking what we had for breakfast or to share an excerpt from our current work in progress. An innocent enough request, and not one that will cross the lines from public persona into private persona. The fan who asked the question might not know that we’re having a rotten day, the plot is coming apart, that fabulous chapter you outlined in your head is flat on the screen and you can’t fix it, or the muse has taken a walkabout and doesn’t plan to come back soon.
You see the post on your fan page and seethe. How dare this person interrupt your dark mood while you’re desperately trying to get the muse back in your corner so you can finish your current work in progress and move on to the new idea that erupted last night? Doesn’t this person know how “important” your life is? Well, they are about to learn a lesson and you can do that from behind the anonymity of the computer screen.
Before the fingers get to walking across the keyboard to deliver a scathing response, walk away. Get another cup of coffee. Go outside and take several deep breaths, enjoy the beautiful day for a few minutes. Even screech what you plan to say at the mirror.
Feel better yet? If the answer is yes, go back to that post and think over carefully what you plan to say. You don’t have to reveal details about your work. Just post an update on where you are. You don’t even have to say that you’re stuck. Tease your fans, don’t blast them.
Or you’re not feeling like putting on the public face and still want to bash this fan for having the gall to ask you this question. So, you hunch over the keyboard and deliver a punch the world can feel. And the world will indeed feel this punch.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a first book author working on the second while your first languishes in sales. You can be a New York Times bestselling author and still make this gaff. Once you publish that comment, more than likely you will be the center of a firestorm of commentary, and none of it will be complimentary or flattering. What sales you had, whether they be fabulous or small, will vanish in a heartbeat. And since sharing is an integral part of social media, the rest of the world will not only know about your temper tantrum, they’ll be talking about it for days.
Once that furor dies down, you will have that peace and quiet you so desired when you unleashed your rage on the fan who asked a simple question. In fact, you’ll probably have more privacy than you ever wanted as an author. In fact, you can probably say that you will have more than enough time to plot out a hundred books and get them written, as your fans will leave you in droves and they will be talking about why they’re leaving.

It takes months or years to build a loyal, dedicated fan base. It only takes one unguarded comment to destroy all of that in less than a day, as one author learned recently on Facebook. I won’t mention her name. That isn’t important, and she probably won’t thank me for bringing up a wound that is still healing. What is important is to learn from her action—fans are the lifeblood of being an author. We must interact with them in a positive way at all times. If we can’t do that, it should be one of those days where we don’t update our fan page and just hide out inside our latest project.

Public Persona Versus Private Persona

You have a book contract. You are finally an author. Now it’s time to share that book length bio you’ve been tweaking for years. Everyone needs to know every single thing about your life, about how you used to swing from tree limb to tree limb as a child all the way up to your kid’s birthday party last week.
Maybe you’ll extend an invite for all of your fabulous fans to stop on by your house to share their insights into your book. It would be a good idea to hold a pool party/book signing, wouldn’t it? You want your fans to be your new best friends, your door is open to them.Hang on there for about a minute or two. There is a limit to how much our fans should know about our lives. As a newly minted author, you may believe there is no such thing as too much information, but there is.
Fans are just that—fans. They aren’t our best friend. They should never have access to the most private part of our lives. There must be an unbreakable line between what the fan knows and what they don’t know.
Yes, you can share where your appearances will be and when you’ll be out in public where you won’t mind people coming up to you. It’s all right to open up in the store with those you happen to run into but don’t know. After all, word of mouth has always been the best advertising an author will ever get.
For instance, I happened across a mother who was having a difficult time with her children while grocery shopping recently. Laughingly, I told her, “Thank you for reminding me why I’m so happy my youngest just went to college.” This overwhelmed mother was soon laughing with me and saying that would happen soon for her too. Her daughter announced that she’d graduated last spring and had a job. We had a conversation, but I didn’t disclose where my son attended college or anything about him. When I parted ways with this woman, we had connected, but I hadn’t revealed anything about what I consider my private life.
Another instance came when we moved our son into his dorm. He was going to be without family close for the first time in his life, and the RA stopped by the room to teasingly ask him if he could take the brand new microwave we’d just bought for our boy. My child had this look of terror on his face, as he was unsure how to handle this situation, so I jumped in and said, “Sure, you can do that, but only if you buy my books.” The RA responded, “Oh, you are a student here too.” My response was, “No, buy my books. I’m an author.” Needless to say, my child’s stock just went up in this person’s eyes, because he had a somewhat famous parent. The whole moment garnered me new fans, but past the moment when I said, “buy my books” the RA never learned anything private about our family. That’s how I’ve taught my children to deal with my very public persona. They can say my mom’s an author. They can even identify my books, and most do without any hesitation, but they don’t have to share what makes them uncomfortable. And they do get to have lives that aren’t those as “the author’s kid.”
We’ve all heard the horror stories about fans accosting well-known authors, actors, and other people with a public face. We know what can happen, but don’t believe that will happen to us because we aren’t truly famous.
Don’t ever think like that. It’s very important to decide early on exactly what we’ll tell our fans about our lives. You can talk about the swinging from tree limb to tree limb as a child. That gives people a glimpse into the person we once were, and how that translates into who we are now. Sharing intimate information about our current lives such as home renovations, children’s birthday parties, or holding an open house where anyone can come into your home isn’t good. These are events where we need to hold back on the info and become that private person, so that we don’t lose ourselves to the demand for more information.

Remember this: There are friends and then there are fans. Decide early on exactly who is who and keep those lines drawn straight, so you don’t lose the privacy you’ll soon find you crave.

Spotlight: Fury From Hell ~ Rochelle Campbell

Today on Out of Control Characters we welcome Rochelle Campbell and her book, Fury From Hell.


Fury From Hell: A Brooklynized Paranormal Thriller Hits the Amazon Kindle Store
Brooklyn, NEW YORK, September 24, 2014 – Picture this: An atheist Brooklyn NYPD homicide detective with a checkered past holds her own future in her hands but doesn’t know it. Detective Jennifer Holden believes in only her gun and her badge but this does not serve her well when she is unwittingly possessed by a demonic entity – Fury Abatu.
Fury From Hell, a paranormal cop thriller, debuted on Tuesday, September 9th, 2014 and rose to #26 in its category in the Amazon Kindle Store within the first two weeks. This hard hitting thriller has garnered two five-star reviews since its debut citing the book as ‘a marvelous piece of work’and that ‘every twist and turn had me sitting on the edge of my seat!’ Set in Brooklyn, NY, Fury From Hell is a sensory treat for local Brooklynites who will read, with pleasure, how familiar streets and neighborhoods become the backdrop for Holden and her cronies. For readers who live outside the isle of Brooklyn, they will be introduced to the populous borough teeming with 2.566 million people.


Fury From Hell
Fury From Hell is ultimately about good vs. evil. This first book in the From Hell series spins on Holden’s answer of whether life’s truth is ultimately based upon faith in something outside of herself, or self-determinism. As Holden’s life spirals out of her rigid control, new people, thoughts and emotions come into her life including a first-degree initiated Wiccan witch and a High Priestess, Lady Ariella.
Fury From Hell is driven by Holden’s existential question which, if answered incorrectly, will end her life. This paranormal thriller with a smattering of horror is targeted to not only the normal lovers of this genre, but also towards those who enjoy a good yarn that makes one think about what may come after we have shed our corporeal vehicles.
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Title: E-Day Author: D.T. Dyllin Series: ...

 Title: E-Day Author: D.T. Dyllin Series: M-Day #2 Genre: Dystopian Romance Publisher: Tik Tok Press Cover artist: Lindsay Tiry Release Date: August 10, 2014https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22906798-e-dayhttp://www.amazon.com/E-Day-M-Day-2-D-T-Dyllin-ebook/dp/B00MMOO31Ehttp://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/e-day-dt-dyllin/1120113239?ean=2940150761773
Synopsis: M-Day was the dawn of a brand new harsher world. A world where old lives could be left behind and secrets buried for good. At least that’s exactly what Tammie Miles had planned. But even with her new identity as Evo, she discovers that your past is never far. When a man from her old life tracks her down, will she risk everything to keep her secrets? Or will she finally learn that maybe even she can love the right man?
The Author D.T. Dyllin is a Bestselling Romance Author who writes in both New Adult and Adult genres. She is a member of the RWA (Romance Writers of America) and also her local chapter, the MCRW (Music City Romance Writers).

 D.T. was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Black & Gold for life, baby!) She now lives in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband and two spoiled GSDs.
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Promotion—The Right and Wrong of Selling Your Book

Your book is finally ready for publication. The editor-in-chief has advised you to begin setting up your release promotion, and you have no idea what to do.
Yes, that is panic settling all over you like a bad smell. Grab your favorite caffeine drink and settle back. All will be good. Here are a few tips about preparing for a book release.
By this time, you should have been spending time on both Facebook and Twitter each day. You need to grow your pages. What that means is that you need likes and followers. If you set up those pages as soon as you signed your contract, you should have been encouraging people to stop by once in a while and looking over your witty commentary.
Facebook recently changed the way it allows fan pages to reach those on the social media giant. Now, if you want a larger reach, you usually have to pay to have your post boosted. Many authors are asking why Facebook doesn’t realize that authors don’t pull in those massive royalty checks for years after their first book has published. Many authors have spent most of 2014 scrambling to get the reach their posts had before the boost program when into affect.
Here’s a thought on how to boost your posts without attacking your checkbook. Set up a group of friends to help you. As soon as you post on your fan page, have them jump in to like and share the post. A couple should also comment. You won’t have thousands seeing your posts right away, but you will see your post going out to more and more people every time this happens.
Don’t just post links so someone can buy your book after they see your post. Many authors have noticed the posts without links garner more of a reach. However, if you feel the need to add a link, do it in the comment section. Not too often, though.
Add a music playlist that your main character or even your antagonist might listen to. Make sure the songs you select match the characters you’ve created, not songs that you love and want to share with people.
You’ve seen those memes all over Facebook. You know, those pictures with witty sayings on them. Do a search for writing memes. Gather up a few dozen of the ones you like best. Post those on your page. People love sharing and commenting on memes.
Twitter is a great way to talk about your book releasing soon. In fact, Twitter has made it so easy to have that particular tweet remain at the top of your feed, making it the first thing people see when they visit your page.
Embed this post is a very useful promotional tool. Set up a tweet, where you create a hashtag out of your title (#buymybook—but don’t ever use this comment in any kind of promotion) Then add in a comment from the book (evil catches up to Mandy). Next comes the tag you need so your publisher will retweet your hard work (@mypublisher) and finally those ever present hashtags (#thriller, #suspense, or #ASMSG). A well prepared tweet using these elements would look like this: #buymybook Evil catches up with Mandy @mypublisher #thriller #suspense #ASMSG. This particular tweet is a total of 77 characters, far below the maximum of 140 characters. Abbreviate words, or use numbers to say longer words (l8r for later, b4 for before, etc.). This gives you more characters to work with.
Website: some say a website isn’t necessary any longer, that a blog will work just as well. A website might not be necessary for your first book, but having one when your first book releases gives you time to set up the website properly and learn the best way to use it. Many authors use the website to chronicle their books, with a blurb, excerpt, the cover, and a book trailer all in one spot. You can even add a link over your book cover, so the person visiting your website can click that and go to a sales venue to purchase your book.
Blog: a blog tour has always been a great way to get the word out about your newly released book to potential readers. Getting the people to do said tour is another problem most authors avoid like they would the plague. Two methods exist where you can set up a blog tour. The first is to find one of those many companies or individuals who charge you to set up the tour. This can cost you anywhere from $35 to several hundred dollars, depending on what you want to do. Most authors don’t have a few hundred extra dollars hanging around to spend on promotion that isn’t guaranteed to garner them a lot of sales. Setting up a blog tour on your own, when you’ve never done one before can be just as challenging. One group of people has never failed to assist me with blog tours if I’ve asked for their assistance—the authors with your publishing company. They’re in the same boat you are and are usually more than willing to help out. To ensure this assistance, volunteer your blog for their book tours prior to your book’s release. Returning the favor is how we “pay” for our turn at the book release tour.
These are all suggestions on how to have a successful book launch. Utilizing Facebook and Twitter daily after your book releases will also help keep those sales going. This is where most authors slip in their promotion. They lose the momentum brought about by the release euphoria and then find their sales plummeting.

To keep people interested, you have to come up with new and interesting ways to present your book to potential customers. There is no set method to find those ways. Often, you’ll stumble upon an idea. Grab that idea and run with it. If it doesn’t work, look for the next idea. 

One More Edit

“I think I missed something.”
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen this in an email from an author going through the editing process prior to publication. They’ve suddenly realized that their “baby” is about to go out into the cold, cruel world, and they’re being very protective.
Editing prior to publication is something every author goes through, even people like Steven King, Karin Slaughter, or J.K. Rowling. We all have to do this. Our editor can be our best friend or our worst enemy. I prefer to think of mine as my best friend. They have a job to do, and I’m thankful they’re doing it.
By the time you receive the first round of edits, your editor will have gone through your book. They will have absorbed the essence of it. They will have made notes on things they noticed that need to be changed. Most editors are very professional and thorough.
Round 1 will probably be the worst. That first step will have you wondering why you were ever offered you a contract. Believe me, if you were offered a contract, the editor-in-chief found something in your book they found engaging. Your editor is just making engaging into wonderful, fabulous, sure to garner many reviews publishable.
Step 2 is what the editor found that they missed the first time around. It can be just as hard to get through as the first step, but you can do this. Didn’t you labor for months and years to write your book to begin with? Suck it up and plod through this round. If you happen to find something that doesn’t sit right, discuss it with your editor. Don’t go running off to the editor-in-chief with complaint. Don’t ever resort to social media as a means of communicating your dissatisfaction. Never scream that the editor is ruining your work. Take a deep breath, walk away for a few hours, and then come back with a fresh perspective and look at what you saw from a different angle.
Round 3 is usually the last round. This is where the editor has found that missing punctuation missed in the first two rounds. Maybe a spot or two where the sentences are awkward. Or perhaps a missing point that’s important to the plot.
If there is a round 4, it will be much like round 3. As an editor-in-chief, I’ve had to endure authors who feel their work is stellar without editing. As an author, I’ve learned to accept that editing is absolutely necessary in order to have the best book possible.
Which brings us to the point where you suddenly get cold feet once you realize that your book is about to go into the last couple of steps prior to publication—the panicked feeling that you need another round of editing.

No you don’t need more editing. The cure for this panic attack is to get to work on your next book. Forget all about your “baby” while you give birth to a second novel. Think about promotion. Go out to a ball game or a meal with your significant other. Don’t pummel the editor-in-chief with email after email demanding another round of editing.