10-06-22: Remembrance
My Mum passed away on this day in 2018. I wish she had been alive to see my debut novel published.
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08-06-22: It’s finished!
Finally, the manuscript is finished. All those writes and cut-outs, re-writes, re-ordering of the story, corrections following BETA comments, re-writes following technical advice, re-writes due to my confidence collapses are completed. I just have one technical detail to check with my police informan…. sources.
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07-06-22: So close…
So close to finishing now. It’s a great feeling but at the same time I start to think… is it good enough? Did I waste my time? Perhaps I should add more? I have stopped writing, now. That’s it.
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06-06-22: Just tidying it all up.
ust finished re-writing the first two chapters following comments from my beta readers. Let’s see if it makes more sense… Lol it ALWAYS made sense to me but there again…I am living and breathing it. That’s why we have the beta readers, right!?
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30-05-22: Comp titles – the dilemma.
I started to think about the logic of those comp titles. So, the publisher wants to know what existing books your book is ‘like’. Ok…what if there is not one? What if your book is unique? What if your type of book in the genre has not been represented for some time but now is
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28-05-22: Comp title struggles.
Got to start thinking about the dreaded ‘comp’ titles soon. I bet just about every author puts this off. Unless you are massively well read, and all in your chosen genre, and even of books in the same style or plot, you are going to struggle with this.
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