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I worked more on doing the hand edits on At The Queen’s Command today. This means I sit, read, mark things up, make notes, then take breaks to do laundry, pick things up, and other chores I hate doing. Somehow, however, they are more fun to do than sitting and editing. The editing process is […]

Editing a novel, for me anyway, is a process that I enjoy and dread. Dread first. This is a huge pile of paper, somewhere around six hundred fifty manuscript pages. And I know, from many years’ experience that the front end of it will be the worst. In starting a novel I tend to toss […]

I mentioned before that I’d loaded my Sony E-reader up with a bunch of books from Project Gutenberg. Since 1971 volunteers have scanned and proofed uncounted volumes of fiction and non-fiction. That proofing part of the process is very important. The few books I’ve pulled from Google Books tend to have a bunch of OCR […]