Lily

Lily
Erma's favorite flower

Friday, April 1, 2011

Where is Fellowship of Deception?

Fellowship of Deception is on Dawn's reading list. Dawn is my agent with Blue Ridge Literary agency in Lynchburg, Virginia. This post is paintingless because I was busy editing the manuscript. The traditional publishing process is slow but necessary. This manuscript has gone from about 80,000 words to 57,000 with a lot of scenes dropped and some added from the original draft. Since this is being written by a newbie author I am not sure what else will be done to my dear Fellowship of Deception. But I know when it is finally published it will be the best it can be because the tradition publishing process makes good books. I remember when I got Fellowship of Deception back from Julie, the dear free-lance editor who did this manuscript's first unbiazed edit. It was like an out-of-body experience, reading her comments which held a glimpse of how she processed the words I had written. Self-published authors are short changing themselves by not getting at least one editor to look at their work. It is an amazing experience to see how another person's brain sees your work. So Dawn is doing her wonders with my baby and then I will get it back again and then who know??? my manuscript will start the publisher shopping process so I will see my work finished and y'all can read it. YEH.