Rosie Somers on Pride and Editors
Welcome, Rosie!!!
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“Every Author Deserves a Good Editor
I know, from the headline, you’re probably thinking this is going to be some sort of rant about bad editors. Actually, it’s the opposite. I’m about to wax gushy about my amazing editor, Kara Leigh Miller. Without her, Pride would have been flat and boring and just plain awful.
I make no secret of the fact that I have a total author crush on Kara. Not just because we’ve been working together so long that we get each other like an old married couple (bad jokes and all). She makes me a better author. Kara has this way of showing me where I need to improve without making me feel like a complete idiot for making the stupid mistakes that I do — and I make some pretty stupid mistakes. It doesn’t matter how experienced an author is (or if her day job has been working as an Editor for umpteen years); she’s going to miss something. By she, I mean me.
Why? Because it’s hard to be objective about your own writing. I can read my manuscript and reread my manuscript and re-reread my manuscript (see where I’m going with this?) and still miss a silly comma separating a dependent clause from an independent clause, or that Mom should be capitalized when my YA character is talking to her mother. Not because I don’t know these things. I certainly have no trouble catching them anywhere else. But when it comes to my own work, I’m too close; I’m too invested. I picture the scene in my head like watching a movie. I know by heart exactly what my characters are feeling, thinking, wanting, etc.
Enter Kara. She fixes my little typos, deletes big sections of text, rearranges my words, and tells me when my characters are acting dumb, or unrelatable; unrealistic, or just plain weird — And I listen. Because at the end of the day, I know she’s seeing something I don’t see, because I’m too close to see the whole picture. Her view is more removed, and she’s able to see what my readers will see. She makes me a better writer and my books better reads. Everyone deserves a Kara.”
PRIDE by Rosie Somers
Surge, Anaiah Press
Blurb:
Seventeen-year-old Gabriella Pierce is used to taking care of herself, but she’s about to become responsible for a whole lot more. When she gets a visit from three men claiming to be defenders of fantastical rings imbued with the powers of THE CARDINAL SINS, her life is changed irrevocably.
Gabby is the steward of PRIDE
To make matters worse, she’s falling hard for fellow steward, Grant Barnett, and he hates her guts. Now Gabby has to learn to protect Pride without letting her feelings for Grant get in the way.
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Book Links:
Add it on Goodreads! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22365515-pride
Anaiah Press: http://www.anaiahpress.com
Author Bio:
Rosie Somers is a YA author who lives in Florida, soaking up the year round sunshine. She can often be found in her favourite spot on her favourite beach, nose-deep in a good book.
Website: http://www.RosieSomers.blogspot.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProsyRosie
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ProsyRosie
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