Happy Nanowrimo! It has begun.
Back in 2016 I sent Ostrich Mentality, unnamed spy novel at the time, to a ton of people for beta. You might remember this, I complained a lot about the conflicting responses. Along the way a couple of people sent me super detailed line edits. But I was so overwhelmed that I shelved the whole project for a year.
This summer I picked it back up, rewrote, re-edited, and now I’m on the verge of publishing. I send copies to a half dozen author friends, asking for a quote to use in marketing.
One of them responds, “Um, it seems like a lot of my edits didn’t happen.”
BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
You have got to be kidding me. In all the various revisions and comments and edits, I missed hers.
Twelve brief hours later I had finished the worlds longest, highest stakes game of spot the difference. Because of course, 50% of things she commented on were gone – rewritten out of the book. 25% were already fixed. And 25% were rewritten but maybe or maybe not fixed.
My eyes are still blurry from that much intense screen time. LOL
Oh yeah, did I mention, pre -order is open! That’s right. You can get your very own copy of Ostrich Mentality for just 99 cents right now.
T.A. Henry 