Monday, February 23, 2009

One down, who knows how many to go...

Well, it appears that the "traditional publisher" gig has fallen by the wayside. Due to some research by the nice lady who did the copyedit for the novel that was supposed to be going to the "traditional publisher", and also due to still another "your work's not good enough to publish so you have to spend a whole bunch of money on our editor" e-mail, I've decided to shelve that idea for the time being, unless they come up with a better offer. Funny how "it doesn't cost you a cent to publish with us" becomes the above-mentioned "hire our editor", isn't it? Doesn't that constitute me spending my money to have my book published? The book in question, Complications, is already a Print-On-Demand novel, so I see no point in doing the same thing all over again. Guess I'll look for another publisher. Or become a publisher myself. I can do that, ya know...

As I was in the middle of reading, laughing at and complaining about the publisher's last e-mail, which, by the way, completely ignored my copyeditor's, and my, comments on their review, which was done by someone who apparently had no clue whatsoever regarding the westen genre, Cheryl suddenly asked, "Why don't you set up your own publishing company and publish it yourself?" That was an idea that I kicked around when my second book, Tyler's Law, was ready to go to print, but I decided that I didn't have enough time to mess with it. But now I'm thinking about it again...

Using the crash course in copyediting that I got during the rewrite of Complications, I've been doing an extensive rewrite of Book 3, Valentine's Revenge, for the last several weeks, and I do believe that it is decidedly improved over what I originally wrote. Once I get through the rewrite of the rough draft of the original, I just need to finish the danged thing...

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