Editing

For the last few days I have been editing one of our new books. I enjoyed the book in question, 'The Steinberg Diamonds', simply because it is a rip-snorting crime caper. But you can never relax and read when you're editing because you are on the lookout for a missing comma, or a speech mark that shouldn't be there.

When you read a book, especially one you have written, you often see what you think should be written rather than what is actually on the page. This means that when this new book, for instance, goes through its second edit, there will still be mistakes and when it gets to the proofreading stage there may still be a few left. Overall however the book gets more and more polished as the process goes along.

There are matters of style and content to deal with too. Could something be phrased better, should a passage be taken out. or one added, or a different word used? It takes a while to get it right but errors jump out at readers if they are not rectified.

It is all worth the effort.

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