Making Progress

Publishing books is quite a lot of work.  After having edited 4 books, I understand why editors charge the fees they do.  Editing requires hours and hours of attention to detail: rewriting, punctuating, and formatting.  I was researching the correct usage of semi-colons and colons this morning and came across this quote:

                     I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.
                                                    — Oscar Wilde

That says it all for me. Have you ever noticed how many commas are in a descriptive paragraph?  For the most part they go largely unnoticed—you read them as you would arrows, pointing you in a specific direction: hints telling you where to pause,  how to make sense of a string of words.  But too few will leave you confused and uncertain.  And too many will make your path feel jerky and unending.  Good grammar is generally not subjective; there are rules for it.  But, on occasion, it seems that the comma, and even other punctuation marks are a matter of choice.  Given the choice, I generally over punctuate rather than under punctuate.

So, that being said: We are nearing the finish line on our 4th book: Short Stories Out Of Kane.
We are doing a final reading and we are inserting maps of the Kane area and the town of Kane this week.  We shot the photo for the cover and are satisfied with it. 

Grover says those hills are the defining Kane landmark: anyone familiar with Kane will recognize the area by the cover photo.  He grew up with it as backdrop to his childhood and teen years. 

The book will be out in October.  Then we will take a break--I think 4 books in one year is quite enough.