Back in September I finished my modified-rough draft of
Book IV and sent a request for resubmission for two reasons. First, and most obvious
was that I wanted to include Book IV in with the other three. Second, since the
last submission I had found multiple errors and mistakes littering what I had
sent in, and this to me was unforgivable. I knew I couldn’t account for and
correct every single error in the document, but I could reduce their frequency.
My publisher replied back with ‘resubmit at my leisure.’
Putting aside Book IV, I went through the revised version
of Book I (originally published around 2017), Book II, & Book III combing
through them for any issues, cleaning up as much dialogue and grammatical mistakes
as I could find, and expanding narration in places that needed it. This was especially
the case for Book I, which was originally written with word 2007; a combination
of the latest Word Software + Grammarly (which isn’t perfect, but it helps),
allowed me to clean up over 2,500 issues, errors, and mistakes since its first publication.
Book III had a chapter deleted because I decided it
needed 21, instead of 18 chapters a couple of months ago. The last four chapters
were too densely packed, and I was dissatisfied with the ending. Unfortunately,
I did this with sleep deprivation creeping up and chapters 19&20 were identical.
Before sending it off, I had this hunch that something was wrong, looked back,
and was correct in my assumptions.
Book IV had already received a similar treatment as I edited
the work while I was writing it. It was just a matter of going through it with
the same tools again and then cleaning up dialogue and narration where I found an
issue.
Placing everything into a single document, from the first
title page to the last cover blurb gave me 621 pages and 366,040 words. What
comes next with them is of course… wait. They’re sent off, with nothing more to
add or take away. Unless there’s some kind of issue that truly calls my attention
from the publisher, I’m not touching them. What will likely take place is that
they’ll be looked over, page formatted, finalized, and a Crowdsourced Campaign
will take place.
I’ve no plans to begin Book V until late Summer/early Fall,
which will be subtitled: Counterpoint.
The only other thing for me to do is to update the outdated
Stellar System data further down the blog, along with several other things that
likely need a good update. And as things move closer to publication, drop the
cover blurbs. But… there you go!
