Editing

Been working hard for the past few days, editing the e-copy of “Cries of the Children.” I had no idea how long the book was. In fact, after 20 years I’d just about forgotten the details, LOL! It’s fun to read it again, almost like I’m not the author. I can’t wait to see what happens to Julie, Steven and Lorraine!

There are references to things that happened in the 90s, or things we don’t have any more. Time constraints make it virtually impossible to fix those, so I’ve got a male lead with a mullet and someone seeing the Twin Towers from an airplane. It is what it is–just hope there aren’t too many snide remarks about that.

I’m 90% done with the editing, which mostly involves making sure words like ‘boy’ don’t look like ’60y.’ And the machine that does the editing (way over in India, I’m told) reads the family name “Freleng” in the book as “Erelong.” You know, as in “Give My Regards to Broadway” where you tell them “I’ll be there erelong!”

Does anyone even say “erelong” any more?

Publication with Barnes and Noble is about a month away, and I’m going to be a featured book. Well, I mean “Cries of the Children” will be a featured book.

And all this is happening because of a very nice actress, named Octavia Spencer. You’ve probably heard of her…did a little thing called “The Help.” One of her best scenes involved a certain chocolate pie…