I will be the first one to admit that writing isn’t easy. In fact, it’s damn hard. There’s a lot to learn, and not just about writing. You have to learn a great deal about the industry itself, how it works and where to best cast your dice. The most important area, though, that any author can control, is what they do when it comes to their manuscripts. It’s hard enough to write a story, but then to correctly edit it, that’s another matter entirely. I have grown leaps and bounds when it comes to the editing phase of my works. I was a poor, poor editor ten years ago when I first started. Now I catch things as if it’s second nature. You have to know how to identify problems. It’s the biggest pain you can imagine, but you must learn how to do it correctly if you want to survive in this business. Editors and agents have little time or patience for manuscripts that are littered with errors.
Now that I’m no longer with Behler, that means my Snowtear Wars series is free to be signed by any other publisher. So, what am I doing right now? Tightening that series up. Yes, reediting it. Again, it’s a pain, but it will greatly increase my chances of it landing with someone else. The time i put in, I believe, will be well worth the effort.
