End Game

I am in the final half of the final step in the final book of the Talisman series. I call this step The Robot Read—the last run through the manuscript after the writing, the revisions, the line editing and the proof-reading. And it always makes me shake my head in wonder and chagrin.

Writing is agonizing, editing is hard, and editing your own stuff is impossible. I would say it’s one of the major drawbacks of self-publishing, but even on those occasions when I placed books with actual publish...