A Time To Edit...
I entered a contest recently and won an e-book cover design from Aeternum Designs, a wonderful new book cover design company!
As most of you know, I usually design my own covers, but this win has come at the perfect time for me because I've been having trouble finding a good cover for the second edition of my novel A Time to Tell. The cover for that book was designed by an in-house artist for the publishing company that originally helped me publish, and it's a very nice cover, but because I have terminated my contract with that company I want a completely new cover that will set the new edition apart from the first version.
I've decided to self-publish a new edition of "A Time to Tell" because back in 2006 when I originally published it there were no online resources to allow writers to easily publish their own books, and over the years I have been publishing all my other books through Lulu.com, so I wanted to have all my books in the same place. It just makes things easier.
Anyway, this book cover contest has really motivated me to get going with that second edition of the book. I'm looking forward to seeing what design Aeternum Designs comes up with!
I've started reading through "A Time to Tell", and as I suspected, my urge to edit has raised its head.
When I published the book back in 2006, I was just starting out in my writing career really, and there is quite a difference between how I used to write then and how I write now. I'm enjoying the story (I'd forgotten how much I love this book!), but am finding things that my 'editor's eye' is unhappy with.
The book was edited by an in-house editor at the small press where it was originally published, but they were just looking for things like grammatical errors and typos.
Having read the first few chapters, I can see it was well edited, but things like 'showing' and not 'telling' were not weeded out. Also, there are some repetitive words that I want to eliminate.
Once I am happy with the book, I will be publishing it with a fabulous new cover from Aeternum Designs!
As most of you know, I usually design my own covers, but this win has come at the perfect time for me because I've been having trouble finding a good cover for the second edition of my novel A Time to Tell. The cover for that book was designed by an in-house artist for the publishing company that originally helped me publish, and it's a very nice cover, but because I have terminated my contract with that company I want a completely new cover that will set the new edition apart from the first version.
I've decided to self-publish a new edition of "A Time to Tell" because back in 2006 when I originally published it there were no online resources to allow writers to easily publish their own books, and over the years I have been publishing all my other books through Lulu.com, so I wanted to have all my books in the same place. It just makes things easier.
Anyway, this book cover contest has really motivated me to get going with that second edition of the book. I'm looking forward to seeing what design Aeternum Designs comes up with!
I've started reading through "A Time to Tell", and as I suspected, my urge to edit has raised its head.
When I published the book back in 2006, I was just starting out in my writing career really, and there is quite a difference between how I used to write then and how I write now. I'm enjoying the story (I'd forgotten how much I love this book!), but am finding things that my 'editor's eye' is unhappy with.
The book was edited by an in-house editor at the small press where it was originally published, but they were just looking for things like grammatical errors and typos.
Having read the first few chapters, I can see it was well edited, but things like 'showing' and not 'telling' were not weeded out. Also, there are some repetitive words that I want to eliminate.
Once I am happy with the book, I will be publishing it with a fabulous new cover from Aeternum Designs!
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Jul 11, 2013 04:14AM
Good luck with with that! Will be great to see.
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Thanks, Martin! I'm looking forward to publishing this one :)
It's amazing how much we change regards our writing and it's a great idea to redo if we want. I've re-written all my work over time, especially Gone, my first book. I am pleased with it.Hope it goes well for you, Maria, and yes, Time to Tell is a good story.
Thank you, Julie! I'm enjoying editing it as it's fun to read the story again after all this time :)I didn't know you'd re-written Gone, I'll have to read that one again at some stage. I really enjoyed it.
Thanks. I haven't rewritten Gone since you've read it (maybe typos)...only several times before it got to that stage - especially the first chapter, that was difficult yet, I'm pleased with how it went. Although I still think Gone is always worth reading :)
