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I’d ask you to comment here, and I’d love to show you a photo of the ARCs, but I currently have no idea how to post photos or engage messages! Argh, so, here’s the link to my FaceBook page where you can say hi and be entered to win a reading copy of the book.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154353819090471&set=a.10150578099825471.669580.435233515470&type=1

Cheers!

Chris

I’m not exactly sure how it works, but my guess is you need to be a book blogger. If interested, you can find out more here: https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/show/id/50349

In other news, I am going over the final pages for the last few tweaks. I’ll be getting those tweaks back to my editor tomorrow along with the map. And that will be that. Of Bone And Thunder will officially be done.

Greetings! I would have posted sooner but there were some internetty issues that needed to be fixed. Big thanks to Ethan and Amy at BeBetterStudios.com I’m having my entire site revamped so before Of Bone And Thunder comes out there will be lots of new stuff to check out here.

The ebook is back to its regular price, but then nothing lasts forever. Not quite sure what I’m up to this weekend. I’m waiting on the copy edited manuscript of Of Bone And Thunder which I should receive any day now. That’s always a bit of heart stopper as the ms (at least in my case) is often festooned with Post-Its filled with queries. Of course, that’s old school. These days it’s more likely to be an electronic file with all those text balloons. Either way, it’s how a lot of small but important details get fixed. A good copy editor does a lot more than simply fix grammar. They’ll notice if a character’s eye color has changed or if you repeated a phrase just a chapter ago. They might even question distance traveled over the time taken, where the sun should be in the sky, and the ambient temperature. Copy editing is a largely unsung but vital role in the making of a book and something that traditional publishing does very well.

Woot Woot! Just sent the revised manuscript back to my editor! And I actually hit the deadline (we’re all surprised I have to say this was the most enjoyable revising experience I’ve had to date. Every cut I made felt right and every addition flowed smoothly into place. I just might be getting the hang of this.

For those interested in some of the specs, the book now clocks in at around 165,000 words so it’s still a brick, but a leaner and meaner one. I estimate that I cut around 25,000 words and added 15,000 new ones. There was a lot of discussion about race and terms in the book and the use of a particularly derogatory word. In the end, raw and ugly won out because that best reflected the truth of things.

Big thanks to my editor, Ed Schlesinger, my agent, Don Maass, and my first readers Mike Evans, Deb Christerson, Robert Evans and Shelly Shapiro with additional input from Barbara Evans, Chris Schluep and Bill Takes. They made the novel better, and I am better for it.

Cheers!

Chris