Back in December I started working on turning Running With A Police Escort into a book and as of Sunday night, I am done with the manuscript!
This is just Phase I of book writing. In terms of fiction and novels, often the book comes first and then the writer starts shopping it around. (At least with early novels. Once a writer gets big enough they can sell an idea before a word is written.) In the non-fiction world, it’s ideas that are sold more often than not. My publishing company offered me a contract based solely on my proposal.
That was the easy part. After signing, then came the hard part: actually writing the book.
Me being me, I set up a spreadsheet with word count benchmarks to keep me on track. For the most part I did a good job of staying on track, although there was a bit of a struggle back in April. Admittedly, back in April, I was actually worried I wouldn’t be able to do this. I wondered if I had taken too much on, if I was in over my head, but I just kept on at it (and maybe turned my editor into a bit of a therapist) and voila!
Now I have to format the manuscript to Skyhorse’s specifications and then send it off to my editor and there will be a period of rewrites and all of that but the really big part is over!
Love from the ashes,
Lady Lazarus
Congrats on jumping over that first hurdle in the book writing and publishing race!!!!
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