Back To My Book

I’m back to dealing with my book of short stories.  My publisher, Turning Point Arts, has been excellent and extremely patient.  I had no idea how long this would take and if I write another book – I must confess that I am underway but that the last few Christmas weeks have got in the way- I will plan a way to streamline things on my own part.

At present, I have just finished re-reading and tweaking the manuscript for about the tenth or twelfth time - no exaggeration.  I have one other person re-reading for a final time and someone else going over my tweaks and being sure that my instructions to the publisher are clear and accurate.

As I decided on changes, I gave him the story, page, paragraph and line, and then the change.  We are now ensuring that the line numbers, etc. are an accurate match with the manuscript line numbers.  I found that my most common slip was a word worm where I used a word and then it got caught in my consciousness.  For example: My brother tossed me the ball but the toss was way off.  My dog retrieved it but then we knew that the game of toss was over.

Obviously, it would not have been that blatant but…

I’m being told that I am being too fussy and that nobody else would notice but as with anything else, I would, and that is really what it’s all about.