Update on book releases

Folks, were are so close to having the cover work done for SERVANT and BAD PENNY. But it’s not done yet. So we’re slipping the delivery into November. CURSE will move back to early December. We lost two months with the issues we encountered with our original art projects. This time, though, we’re going to make

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What changed in the author’s cut of SERVANT?

Because a number of folks have emailed or posted asking this question, I figured I should address it in a post. This edit of SERVANT was signficant, but it involved mostly line edits, copy edits, resequencing, and one important adjustment and addition. Line edits are things that make individual sentences or paragraphs read more clearly. I made line

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Passed the 75% mark on the final draft of BAD PENNY

Working on the copy edits of BAD PENNY today and passed the 75% mark to general rejoicing. You normal folks may now go back to work. For you passionate grammarians, my fab copy editor marked a hundred uses of “then” in my manuscript. No, I wasn’t having issues with the then/than confusion.   I was having issues when using “then”

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The line edit of Servant is finished!

116 hours. 677 pages. 184,000 words. I re-sequenced the beginning and three other spots that had me scratching my head on how the first edition had gotten it wrong. I added a chapter to the ending to make it flow as it should. And tightened small things on almost every other page. Now it’s off

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