Ack! I'm done writing the stories. I have edited them as best I can and I am now looking for proofreaders. I should get more Beta readers, but I'm eager to get this book done. It's been on a burner for too long and it is scorching the pot.
I've already sent one manuscript to a developmental editor. She took her time going through the story and basically told me that if I wanted it to be MG, I had to remove the guns. I get that, I should have done my research before I wrote the darned thing, but it just spilled out of my brain that way. If I had written that book about 20 years ago, it would have been fine, but today, no guns allow with 12-year-old's. At least in a story that will be read by them.
That's a project in itself for guns were the motivating factor in many of my scenes, and removing them has, basically, changed the entire story.. I'm still working that out.
But my collection of short stories, some that were written as as result of my participation in Flash Fiction during Covid, is done. I'm not writing any more. Here's the blurb:
The word, “Love” is bandied about by people in the most casual of ways. I love my new car. I love chocolate. I love to hike. But the word is more than casual. Love is powerful tool fueled by many more emotions than that giddy feeling or butterflies from meeting the right person.
Love motivates. Love crushes. Love changes people.
In this collection of short stories, I have portrayed the word, and its feeling, in light of my experiences or observations. Each chapter subtitle provides a short line saying what kind of love is depicted in the story.
And now the hard part begins. After I find a person who will proofread it, (I don't want an editor, I am done fixing plots, and endings,) I will decide if I want to publish it myself or go the query route. Once I make that decision... well, then I have to market the darn thing if I want to make any money.
The first part of marketing is letting people know you have a product that they need. Okay.. I'll start with my subscribers.
You need to read this book. It will entertain you. It will make you laugh, make you cry, show you a bit of macbre love, and make you feel that there is goodness in the world.
There, now start telling other people about it so I don't have to do all this work myself.
Oh, and Ally is my best friend. My cohort.. My alter ego.. It's me, but it's not. (I don't want kids and Jazzy's books to get put in the same pile as some of my new works that I haven't published yet.
Thanks.
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