It’s real!!!
All up 393 pages, 380+ pages of actual story…
I’m sitting here with mixed emotions right now; relief that the editing process is done, happiness that I have a real book (at least a proof copy), and fear (or terror) of the reception of the book…
I owe a large number of people debts of thanks too…
All of you blog readers for your support…
For the Alpha and Beta readers… Your patience was amazing, and thank you for ALL the constructive criticism, and correcting my lousy punctuation…
For the fact checkers (and no I STILL don’t know how the other 2 disappeared from the ballistics calculation; and yes I corrected for the altitude)…
For the published authors I talked to that gave good advice, especially about editing and constructive and destructive criticism…
To my editor, whom I purposely chose as a woman located in Chicago; figuring she would catch all the problems with understanding the tech jargon, and questions about location. Only to find out via one of her comments back, SHE GREW UP IN TEXAS… Sigh
And my illustrator… A blog reader and graphics wizard, who’s patience, was amazing… Along with her artwork and knowledge of what had to be done to make the cover ‘fit’…
And most of all to the naysayers…
Having come up through the ranks in the military, pretty much NOTHING sets my teeth on edge and makes me MORE determined to do something than being told I can’t, or it’s not good enough…
You know who you are, and please accept my humble thanks…
This is the last step, reviewing the proof, and making any final corrections that we catch, so I’m hoping to go ‘live’ with it either in late February, or early March. I’m planning a Kindle version, a Nook version (via B&N), and a print version.
