Editing…Editing…
In the giddiness that accompanies a new book contract, I always forget about the two elephantine tasks that await:
- Editing
- Marketing
I’m in the throes of my first formal editing pass for the publisher of my novel, The Klockwerk Kraken.
So far I’ve found:
- missing descriptors
- purple prose
- missing emotions
- bad word choices
- missing words in the middle of sentences (the horror!)
- run-on sentences
- independently moving body parts (shudder)
- sentences that have no meaning at all
- verb tense disagreements
This pass makes me soooo glad my editor at MLR Press saw something in this story worth keeping. I just need to finish up with the red pen (or really, the red track changes) and get it back to her.
The story is still evolving–keep a look out for more updates before publication.
And be prepared for the onslaught of Marketing when it arrives! 😉