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We make minor changes based on their comments, and the book is sent to the line and copy editor (the owner of the very blog I am currently writing this up for, Crystal Shelley of Rabbit with a Red Pen). The manuscript then comes to me for execution for beta comments.Дiane checks the changed parts of the book and then sends it to special readers for sensitivity and people with specific knowledge of locations and jobs mentioned in the book. The book now goes to preliminary beta readers and comes back through Diane, who collates their comments and edits out any unnecessary tangents. The manuscript goes to one of the two writers to execute DianeвЂ™s notes.

Their notes go to Diane, who decides what is kept and what is changed. The draft with revisions comes to me for my review, then goes to the second developmental editor to get a new set of eyes on the manuscript. The manuscript with DianeвЂ™s notes goes to the author of the first draft for revisions. She decides where it goes next and who is in charge of that process. The first draft is finished and sent to our primary developmental editor (Diane Callahan of the Quotidian Writer), who is also our lead editor and traffic cop for all manuscripts. OK, joking aside, a typical round of feedback and editing goes like this: We throw it at the wall and see what sticks.

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We chose exclusivity because ACX gives review copies for free and that is vital with audiobooks (also, the royalty is higher going ACX exclusive.) What is your process for feedback and editing before you publish? We also have audiobooks, two of which are ACX exclusive, one of which is wide. Plus, for every book sold on a non-Amazon platform, we were selling twenty times as many on Amazon itself. I have been published wide before, but at the end of the day, I preferred Kindle Unlimited because I enjoyed watching pages being read. On what platforms do you publish and why did you choose these? Two are rom-coms, one is epic fantasy, and the last one is a fairy tale retelling. The collaborative authors and I have four books in various stages of completion. One in womenвЂ™s fiction with romantic elements, one in the heist genre, and the most recent one is in the urban fantasy genre. whether they want to be or not, LOL.) How many books have you self-published and in what genre(s)? I also love choosing covers on my own and working with freelance editors, since I was my own boss for nearly twenty years and owned my own small business, so IвЂ™m totally on the side of small business owners (and freelance editors are very much business people. I work with multiple authors, so I need to have autonomy in my decisions. Hahaha!) Every so often, I might submit another book to agents, though I havenвЂ™t done it yet. (I guess that makes me a bit of a control freak. In the end, I knew that I was going to self-publish some of my works, as there are some stories I want to tell that I need complete control over. I donвЂ™t think my craft has gotten good enough to tell it, but when I do finally write it, I want to do so traditionally because I want to see it on the shelf of a Barnes and Noble or local library and know that it got there on its own and I didnвЂ™t donate it. I have one story thatвЂ™s been in my mind for thirty-plus years. IвЂ™ve submitted one book to agents and was turned down across the board (though my dream agent asked for 50 pages, so that was a breathless six weeks!). My mind is always going, вЂњWhat would happen ifвЂ¦?вЂќ and many a tale has been born that way.Дid you choose to self-publish from the start, or did you seek traditional publishing first?

This idea meets that idea in my head, and a new idea is born. ItвЂ™s never too late!ДЄ lot of the stories I come up with are inspired by meldings of things. I watched videos, read blogs, attended seminars and conferences, and slowly my work is getting better and better.

I finished that novel (which isnвЂ™t good enough to be published, but what the heck, it was done) and started actually taking the craft seriously for the first time in my life. At that moment I looked at the past fifteen years and realized that if I didnвЂ™t start now, IвЂ™d never do it.

And at forty-plus years old, I sat there at a restaurant writing the first words of a novel on a laptop I was using for my work. One line became two, and then they became a paragraph. I was on the road one day, coming back from auction and stopping to get a bite to eat when the first line of a novel hit me. I got caught up in the business I used to run (one that I had started specifically to give me time to write but had taken over my life), and my writing went by the wayside. I went well over a decade (almost two) without putting a single word to page. But I do remember when I started writing again. Oh boy, I canвЂ™t even remember when I started writing. When did you start writing, and what inspires you to write the stories you do?

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