So, I edited Dirty Eden again and changed the first chapter up quite a bit. There were parts that were a little flat and some that simply needed to be altered to make them more clear (thanks Mr. Ron Wolfe for all your input!). I’ve already received several agent rejections, but I’m not going to let that get me down. As I said before, I knew in advance that rejections, even a lot of them, were inevitable. I know too that I’ll get many more before I get that magical acceptance letter. In the meantime, I’m doing what I need to do to make the manuscript better.

The one thing I can say is that so far I have not received any negative feedback on Dirty Eden in general. I even had a request to see more of it and although that did not prove beneficial, it to me is encouraging.

So, the first chapter has been revised extensively. Well, technically the whole novel has been re-edited and revised, but I’m only putting up the first chapter for download. You can download the pdf on this page.

Note: Because I don’t really have a separate home page, this post will remain ‘sticky’ (at the top) to highlight recent news that may be up for weeks or more at a time. All of my most recent blogs are below this one.
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Dirty Eden is done!  The book is now going through the editing process (well, the first edit by Brian aka Skorpius aka the Professor aka Boss with a Crowbar – one day I’ll decide which name I want to use permanently), who should probably look into editing as a career, because he’s that knowledgeable! The first chapter is available for download on ‘The Work’ page.

I’m also in the process of scoping out which publishers (and/or agents) I will submit to first. I am not at all looking forward to this. I know enough about the publishing industry to know that it feels impossible to get published because it’s not really that far from being impossible.

We’ll see, and I’ll update every step of my gory adventure for your reading amusement. ;-)

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Well, complete as in I typed the last sentence today. Now it’s all up to Boss with a Crowbar to break out his mad editing skills and edit the hell out of me before I take it to the next level.

Anyway, this is just a quick post to mark the day I finished. Pretty soon I’ll be adding the  book blurb on ‘The Work’ page and when I do, I’ll post a blog to let you know.