I have received my book back from my editor and now am doing a final readthrough. Some of the edits I did left double commas and other punctuation errors and I'm reading it through again to make sure everything is clear and can be understood by my readers.
I'm really excited about releasing my first book and I only have a few hurdles left to overcome. I have my artist friend doing a mock up of the cover art so we can brainstorm the look and colors. I need to tweak my acknowledments and make sure I have all my footers in the right place. The final document has gone through multiple incarnations of file extension giving a format a hairy ride so I have been double checking to make sure everything is in the right place. Once I get everything just so I will be dropping the book in ePub and hope the formatting doesn't go wonky again. Once I have the final product done I will post the first five chapters on this site so I can give everyone a chance to read the start of the book and I hope that it will give you readers a reason to purchase it.
This process has left me tired and I have been getting chronic headaches but it hasn't detered me. I am about a third of the way through the first draft of the second book in this series and have a few scenes written in the third book. I have a couple side projects going that have also kept me busy while I waited for the edit to come back. Hopefully I will have more on those soon.
Chris Dodson
