Eve of the Pharaoh hits #1 on an Amazon Best Seller list. Book two in the series reaches its first draft.
It's been a long road, passing manuscripts through beta readers and editors, as if I'm trying to get a secret treasure through security. As a writer, I don't want to show my work - that takes a piece of my soul to with it - to anyone until its about my tenth edit and I'm feeling almost completely done. Only then, when I could visualize someone reading the story and liking it, can I pass it on.
But I start with those closest to me and branch out. Once the novel is edited by my closest confidants, then I begin to feel more secure and hold it a little higher as you move onto the next guardian, wielding their own pen as a sword of sorts. At least along the way, the treasure starts to become polished and shine, and I know each person in their own way fashions another facet onto what I deeply hope will become a jewel of some sort.
That is how I feel about the beta readers and editors I've used. Now with the publication of the first book, my list of guardians is growing and making each following work stronger and stronger. I salute you all for your help, from the highest editor to the lowest review - you've all assisted in some regard in fashioning each following story. Like the encounters of Horemheb and Gavin in the tale, they must be faced and overcome...
The second book will be in final draft and should published in 2018, although probably later in the year.
But I start with those closest to me and branch out. Once the novel is edited by my closest confidants, then I begin to feel more secure and hold it a little higher as you move onto the next guardian, wielding their own pen as a sword of sorts. At least along the way, the treasure starts to become polished and shine, and I know each person in their own way fashions another facet onto what I deeply hope will become a jewel of some sort.
That is how I feel about the beta readers and editors I've used. Now with the publication of the first book, my list of guardians is growing and making each following work stronger and stronger. I salute you all for your help, from the highest editor to the lowest review - you've all assisted in some regard in fashioning each following story. Like the encounters of Horemheb and Gavin in the tale, they must be faced and overcome...
The second book will be in final draft and should published in 2018, although probably later in the year.
Published on December 17, 2017 08:02
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