I like to write a novel in the same order it will be read, and I feel like that about this blog too. I shared the journal entries I wrote as I was writing Outage, so I'll share here a few things I did after I finished to get it ready for publication.

I mentioned in the last post that I had family and friends read it. This was really critical in the evolution of the book, because they all pointed out different things that I could improve. There were a few things they all agreed on too. I think...