Tessera
Trilogy Blog
Post 244
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Completed reading Stieg Larsson’s second
novel, The Girl who played with Fire. Another excellent novel with
lots of suspense, action.
And then I finished Stieg’s third
and last novel, The Girl who kicked the Hornet’s Nest. Great! Different, a kick
ass book.
Have been busy reviewing, changing,
checking paragraph spacing, every last friggin chapter heading and its spacing -
over and over, and yet over again. That is why, fellow BAM critiquers, I have
been away. My apologies.
Then I had to come up with the
novel’s cover. I had the idea, and came up with a draft. Seven drat versions
later I asked my son to work on it. He did, then I played some more. Over and
over and over again I adjusted image spacing, conversion to PDF format.
Then the innards and outards were
sent off to CreateSpace for their computer review. More changes, still more
changes! Finally I resorted to the millennial son again. He finessed it, and I
sent it in.
Am awaiting my first PROOF COPY. I
expect more changes will be necessary to ensure the text portions all align
properly. That means another line by line, section by section review. YIKES! Wish
me luck! It’s been a hectic couple of weeks.
And, of course, I’ve had that other
distraction of mine – TWITTER. Am over twenty-one thousand tweets now and
average about 28 to 30 followers.
And I’ve also been taking a gazillion
notes and putting them into a long, 62 page rough, rough draft of my next novel.
I’ve come up with a detective series I call Murder and Mayhem. The first novel will
be – Payroll
Deduction.
