Hi, just a quick blog to let you know that while DANNY 2:3 is on schedule, the schedule is wrong. I have, as ever, underestimated how long it takes to edit these monsters. You’d think I’d know this off-rote by now, but I don’t.
Soooooo………. Road Movie will not be with you till April. Sorry. I’m not going to give you a date in April as yet – don’t want to disappoint y’all again, but maybe you’ll have it as an Easter present. No promises.
Good news is, all being well, you will have it in April. And remember, lest you be crushed by this disappointing news, you will get the final (complete) Volume – DANNY 3 this year too. Don’t have a firm title for that one yet.
After that, you will (very quickly, as it is edited already) get DANNY 4 (all 76 pages of it), Death in Venice and The Boy With The Red Hair. I will be issuing them in that order (I think) and I will do them separately first then as a compendium with all 3 in it for DANNY completists.
No, I have no (immediate) intentions of completing DANNY 4, that’s why I’m issuing it as it stands, so you will at least have idea where the Jackson Moores were headed at the end of their epic journey. If I ever do finish it, it will not ruin it as, at 76 pages, it’s just a trailer really. Remember, DANNY 3 was the original Volume 4, so you don’t really need to read the ‘new’, incomplete volume if you don’t want to. I just felt their story wasn’t finished as I hadn’t filled in the family history; that’s what the ‘new’ volume was going to do. But in real life you don’t know family histories often, so you can be all Zen about it and leave the unfinished 4 alone and just stop with 3, the original end.
After that’s all out, I shall be moving on to a new novel, one of many, I hope, which will be very mainstream. At least as mainstream as I can make it. Certainly in size and (complete absence of) sexual content. Not going down that road again. Ever. I have decided that 2013 is the year that I go to the big houses; enough of hiding in the margins of ‘weird niche’ and being dismissed as “pornography”.
So, that’s it. You won’t be getting Road Movie till Easter or later, but after that 2012 will be a non-stop fest of all things DANNY, after which, of course, it will actually stop. But you knew this day was coming……. right?
Right, marching on…
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These cold winter nights it’s not just Danny that I miss……it’s John! Stay warm.
Ah, you John junkies. I sometimes think I should have called the book that…
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See? The usual suspects…
God! waiting on pins and needles now, just have to read 1,2,3, for the third time to hold me over til April. Hurry, Hurry, Hurry!
I am racing through it even as we speak, Teresa. Racing to THE END… (Who me? panicking?)
If you ever need help editing, I’m a very good line editor. I find typos in every book I read…yeah, I know you’re thinking I’m just plotting to get a preview of the next Danny. And you wouldn’t be wrong. But I’m not lying about the editing part, anyway. :)
Oh God, yes. I lost my typist and editor last year (I think?) and have not been able to face replacing her. Can I ask you what experience you have of editing? If any. If you haven’t done it professionally that’s not neccessarily a problem. My old typist hadn’t either, but she was an archivist and well-educated with a very good attention to detail and a lot of patience, plus she was cheap! She was really good and I miss her, but I really do need someone to proof-read the manuscripts. When you’ve worked on an MS as long as I do your eye just flicks over errors, which suddenly jump out at you as soon as the format ‘changes’, i.e. it becomes a 3D book. I’ve already spotted a staggering 13 typos in 2.3, which horrifies me, as I’ve only skimmed through the book and know there must be MANY more of them. This book was done much quicker, and without my proof reader, and I know it. It hurts my perfectionism like hell.
So please, convince me you’re good…
Yes, perfectionism, that’s me, too. But your own typos are always the hardest to spot.
Credentials for editing…besides reading a ton (lately a lot of e-books, and unfortunately they are often full of typos, which makes me itch to fix them!), I’m also a writer. I have written seven novels, one actually published by Mirrorstone (Maiden of the Wolf, book 4 in the Hallowmere series created by Tiffany Trent), and have edited WIPs by other writers of my online critique group. I’m just passionate about reading and writing. I’m also a fairly fast reader.
That’s about all I can tell you. If you’d like, I could do a few trial pages, or something. Just let me know. My email is gelaranger@yahoo.ca
Hi there, having gone through various ideas for trials by fire and sending you on outrageous quests, I think the best idea might be to let me see your novel. I looked it up on Amazon, and it seems to be a YA, is that right? In which case, it might not be perfect, if it’s… less sophisticated, for want of a better description. Do you have anything written for adults? What this will let me do is see how well you punctuate, spell and so forth - and, of course, what your error rate is like! Believe it or not, although DANNY reads easily, it’s often complicated and tricky to punctuate and breaks a lot of rules because it uses so much ‘bad’ grammar, so I do need a good sophisticated eye to spot where it isn’t working, without, of course, ruining what it’s trying to say.
I’m making this sound more complicated than it is! What I’m trying to say, and failing miserably, is it’s helpful if the proof-reader can chuck their half-pence worth in if something is confusing or not working. A sounding board, if you will, as well as an eagle-eyed error spotter. I neither want nor expect actual line-editing; all I really want is proof-reading, but it does help to have feedback on whether my corrupt punctuation and extreme grammar torture is doing its job. Okay, I’m quitting while I’m vaguely ahead.
If you have something recent, and as adult as you have, could you send it in an attachment to Max at Poisonpixieltd@btinternet.com and he will forward it on to me. Looking forward to hearing from you…