With The Hunted Angel now on sale, and my sixteen other books given a dusting over, and reissued, I have made a start on my eighteenth book. Don’t hold your breath. It’s only six pages long at the moment, and months of toil lie ahead before it emerges as a completed novel,
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A final tweak before all of my books are reissued. My anthology of short stories, Stella and Rose (which includes a further Rutter story, Rutter’s Rescue) has a new cover. Its third.
I was never happy with the previous two. The first showed what was supposed to resemble a feminine undergarment,
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My new book, The Hunted Angel, is now available to the entire market. Until today, it was published on Amazon only, in ebook (Kindle) form and paperback. From today, it is also available from (wait for it): Apple (Apple Books), Barnes and Noble (Nook), Kobo and reading libraries,
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Eureka! ‘The Hunted Angel’ is published at last. It should be live, as a Kindle ebook, on Amazon by the time you read this. The paperback will follow in a couple of days. For reasons best known to Amazon, it takes longer to clear a paperback book for publication.
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Cuzzie’s real name is Diane, but she is my wife’s cousin and known as ‘Cuzzie’ to one and all. Even our kids called her ‘Auntie Cuzzie’ when they were small. For all that, she is my proofreader because she is nothing short of ruthless when assessing my work –
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Things are moving on rapidly now. I have moved on from trawling through the text backwards (which was a chore, believe me) and have run the Grammarly check. Grammarly is a free download. There is also a paid-for version, which offers more features, but I don’t use it.
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Not me, the book. As I mentioned in a previous post, the first draft topped out at over 138,000 words, which was about 20,000 more than I was expecting. Ever since, I have been editing to get rid of any bloat. And there was some. I still have around 150 pages to go and the total had dropped to just over 125,000 words.
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I have completed the third pass and am in a good position to bypass the fourth altogether. Only a handful of pages remain without any alterations whatsoever – literally less than ten out of more than four hundred. There is no need to stage a full scan for so few pages,
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I have now completed the biggest two passes of the whole editing process. These both involve reading the entire book from beginning to end. The first was done onscreen, the second on a printout with a coloured highlighter. Printing a substantial block of text out helps to focus the mind and makes the process of ferretting out those examples of poor writing that should never have been there in the first place.
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First, let me apologise for the typing error in the previous post. I typed ‘whole’ where I should have typed ‘while’, resulting in a sentence that made no sense. Both are actual words, so the spelling checker did not highlight it. The ‘i’ and ‘o’ keys are adjacent to each other on a standard QWERTY keyboard,
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