It's done!
Sky 2 - Detritus Machine is done. And I don't mean casually 'done' as if I've merely come to the end of the last chapter and slapped 'The End' on the thing. No. I mean done as in most of the first draft written over the past three years, new characters and plot line added over the last year to round out the scientists and poisonings at the labs story. Then multiple rewrites. Then off to Red Adept and Lynn for line editing. That first phone call from her always a bucket of cold water in the face. But then getting back the first line edit, carving it up, smoothing it out, cutting so deeply that we scrape the bones of the story.
Then doing it again four times over the next three months.
Finally, "there are no more edits to review" or whatever unbelievable message MS Word shows me when all edits are done, it goes to the first proofreader.
Perhaps my favorite part of the editing process is getting the copy back from the first proofreader. There are usually only ten to twenty suggested changes, most of them missing words, which takes about twenty minutes to go through on my side.
Then it's off to the second proofreader. After a week or so, it comes back to me with maybe five to ten changes. This step of the process, though, scares me. One, it shows how freaking easy it is to miss errors. I mean, I didn't catch it, editor didn't catch it and first proofreader didn't catch it. Which means there are probably a few that this proofreader didn't catch too. And two, as the last step in the process, it's time to start thinking about producing the variety of formats that will be uploaded to Amazon and Smashwords, marketing, pricing, finalizing the cover art from my Portuguese artist.
Then putting it up and seeing how people like it.
Oh, and let's not forget, continuing all the while to work at the real job so I give it justice, manage my people with sincerity and skill, AND continue to crank on the third book, which is due at the Content editor in May. Oh, and let's not forget to set the starting line-up for the boys soccer team I coach and remember to buy a brisket for the all-day Saturday meat smoking gala.
Ha. Life is Good baby! Happy Friday!
Then doing it again four times over the next three months.
Finally, "there are no more edits to review" or whatever unbelievable message MS Word shows me when all edits are done, it goes to the first proofreader.
Perhaps my favorite part of the editing process is getting the copy back from the first proofreader. There are usually only ten to twenty suggested changes, most of them missing words, which takes about twenty minutes to go through on my side.
Then it's off to the second proofreader. After a week or so, it comes back to me with maybe five to ten changes. This step of the process, though, scares me. One, it shows how freaking easy it is to miss errors. I mean, I didn't catch it, editor didn't catch it and first proofreader didn't catch it. Which means there are probably a few that this proofreader didn't catch too. And two, as the last step in the process, it's time to start thinking about producing the variety of formats that will be uploaded to Amazon and Smashwords, marketing, pricing, finalizing the cover art from my Portuguese artist.
Then putting it up and seeing how people like it.
Oh, and let's not forget, continuing all the while to work at the real job so I give it justice, manage my people with sincerity and skill, AND continue to crank on the third book, which is due at the Content editor in May. Oh, and let's not forget to set the starting line-up for the boys soccer team I coach and remember to buy a brisket for the all-day Saturday meat smoking gala.
Ha. Life is Good baby! Happy Friday!
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