Book Musings and Other Things…

As it stands, officially, I have one book published. Unofficially, I have two books—subtitled Reckonings and Convergence—submitted, along with the Revised/Edited version of Book I. They were placed into a single document and sent to Battlefield Press. Hopefully, in the next couple of months, there should be a Kickstarter for an omnibus… hopefully!

For explanation, Book I was published with issues in terms of editing. Originally written in word 2007, it was reopened in Word 2016, and through it and Grammarly, going over the work multiple times, I corrected in upwards of 1800+ grammatical errors alone. Along with these corrections, came scene transitions and several scenes scattered throughout the book which were reworked and cleanup to read better than before. Lastly, I did my best to fix whatever dialogue errors that were present.

Obviously, there are some things that might have escaped in some form or fashion because it was too minor to be noticed. However, Book I reads better than before.

Book II received double-fold treatment, first in the form of a young man who offered to edit after reading my first book—and happily wrote him a letter of recommendation for that. The other was through Grammarly; there’s always something that could be missed, and it was combed through to fix any possible error. I had fun writing Reckonings and look forward to seeing it in print!

Book III was a small challenge, partially because it was a change of pace, and partially because work and health had gotten in the way. At first, I considered it a train wreck of a story, but as I put everything together, it read better than I expected. It received a heavy-handed editing treatment to make sure things everything was as grammatically sound as I could make it. In the end, I found myself enjoying the book, even becoming a little sentimental over it.   

Which leaves Book IV. I have plot, subplot, and even metaplot worked out, with a few minor things shifting here and there. It’s just a matter of stop getting distracted and use the time that I have to type. Though I think some of that distraction has come in the form of waiting for the first three to be published. I just have to keep my head afloat, one word and sentence at a time.