Hi T.P.

The editing is going very well. I am on page 50 of "my" final edits and rewrites. It still is a long process. Each morning I re-read the story [from the prolog to the last chapter I previously edited], and each morning I find a ton of typos, grammar errors, or a need for a slight change of words or phrases.

I am also finding a need to add additional chapters to help move the story along. However, I do feel that I am on track with my October deadline.

When I finish with my final edits, I found a professional editor that is going to give it a final “once-over” to check for additional grammar and punctuation errors (which, will be well worth the money). Last step … sending it to an agent, and with any luck a publisher will pick it up.

Over the past four years, I reviewed several books by authors who had self-published. In most cases their stories were very strong, but the books were riddled with grammar errors and typos. That is my biggest fear right now. I just want a clean copy to shop around. When I was working on the magazine, that was our number one priority, and even after going through several editors, we would always find at least a couple typos that we missed in the final printing.

Dee-Marie