Only To Begin Again

                                             Editing Madness
This was me last week. Okay, probably longer than that. I was trying to editing my vamp book, Seduced by Blood, after creating a Bonus Erotic Edition as well as a Traditional Non-Erotic Edition. Yeah, it wasn't easy. Taking out all the 'hard' sex requires certain re-writes to keep the book romantic.

It was interesting as hell, though. I was also floored by the fact that even after as many edits as my manuscript has received, I still found mistakes. And yes, I'd had my manuscript professionally edited. They weren't huge and glaring, but they were there, and how frustrating is that?

So, I spent the entire weekend busting my ass cleaning them up. Last night I uploaded the new and improved versions on Amazon, and started reading what I'd already written of Braden's story, Betrayed by Blood, A Sangre Novel, Book Two.   :}

I've had some ideas on this book recently, about how Braden might've begun his career working for the US Government against terrorists. I'm excited to tell his story, and today, it begins.

As far as editing madness, well, I'll be there again soon. The rights to my other two books, Leather and Lace and Body Candy are mine again. I'm thrilled and feeling an urgency to set these babies up with new covers and upload them on Amazon.

These books were edited quite extensively by my editor at Ellora's Cave, who was fabulous, by the way.

I wrote Leather and Lace with EC in mind and it was my first published book, so it holds a magical place in my heart. I didn't realize until I began formatting it that there's a bit of head hopping going on, however. Change of point of view from one to the other in the same paragraph, at times. I was a Nora Roberts fanatic and had no idea that this was not the norm.

Looking back, I can't see how I could make the mistake. Some people can read it just fine, some people aren't bothered by it at all, as a matter of fact. But, some readers find that it pulls them out of the story or is that it's confusing, so I'll be making an effort to repair that and have those books uploaded ASAP.

Need to find or make covers. Haven't decided which yet. Adobe Photoshop requires it's own skill set and isn't easy for the layman/woman.

Anyway, I'm off with Braden. Have a great week, everyone.

Taylor