Progress: Dragons of Fire! and No Time to Trust.

Saturday, March 10th:  
When I told Grover I was going to work on his book again Friday morning, he said, why don’t you call it “our book?”  I asked him if he was saying that because he felt guilty when I called it his book...for all the work I am doing.  He said, Yes, a little.

Well, after doing a hundred pages of searching for comma splices and reviewing all of the sentence construction I concluded that I had, indeed, also written this book.  That after all, WE write books.  It was a corner I turned.  Interesting that it has taken me years to claim my part in the authorship.  When I started I felt reluctant to change anything, thinking that I was denying him “his voice.”  But now, I think that the combination of “his voice” and my grammatical construction, are the perfect balance for a well-written novel.  So, I see it now as Our Book.  It’s about time, I guess.  I finally finished the editing and then Grover decided he should take a look at it.  We have been reading it aloud to see if it flows.  Will we ever finish up?

Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Today we had an exceedingly successful day.  After spending all day yesterday tearing my hair out while I tried to upload No Time to Trust, I could certainly use a day like today.  Grover helped me sort out the kinks in the uploading process, and together, after 8 hours of effort we were able to successfully load not only No Time to Trust but Dragons of Fire, as well for the proof order.  We even put together a cover in record-breaking time!  We were so excited we almost danced around the room!  I sent everyone the preview cover copy and didn't even check for errors.  Hey, thanks everyone for reading the back and pointing out the typos.  We can use all the help we can get with proofreading! 

 If you didn't see the cover, here it is, warts and all!  I have to wait for approval of the proof copy to correct the typos online.

      After getting all of this done Dad went right out and emailed me his 3rd book, so I could download it and begin editing it!  Crow Woman on Deadman!  Bet you can't wait!