Beta-Review Blues(?)

Yesterday I came home to see a message from one of my beta-readers and a PDF of her notes. I felt at once excited and wary by what the notes would contain. Would she like it? Hate it? Tell me to jump off a cliff? It's like opening a present when you don't know if the contents …

Whilst I wait…

I've been twiddling my thumbs, my WIP in the hands of my friends, waiting for them to finish reading and listening to their critiques. I'm trying not to dwell on it, but I confess that I'm harassing on of them. "What do you think? Huh? Huh? Well, is it good!? TELL ME NOW!!!!! To keep …

Answering the call

I found a couple of brave readers to give my manuscript a quick once over, so you can rest easy. I, however, am a nervous wreck. Will they like it? Hate it? Turn me over to the grammar police who will decide that I should die due to my many grammatical infractions? Maybe I should …

What's with the crickets?

The final chapter has been dealt with, and I'm done. Walking away from the book. I can do no more! I'm happier with this ending so I'm glad I decided to rework it. There's more of a finality to it than my first attempt which I like. Now I need some readers. Anyone up for …

I need an alpha…reader that is

Okay, I'm almost done with my rewrites. That went faster than I had expected. Most of the changes happened in the middle of the book and there wasn't a lot at the end that needed to be tweaked. I'm happy for it. I'm mulling changing the last chapter, however. I find that it's not satisfying. …

Reading, writing, and I hate my job…

This is the first time since last May that I haven't posted a book review. It's a little weird. I had considered reviewing the Divergent series just for the hell of it, but time got away from me. I'm not committing myself one way or the other for now. I do need to get myself …