by jessdee | Apr 17, 2013 | Australian Romance, Coming Soon, eBooks, editing, Excerpt, Samhain Publishing
I’m in the middle of edits for the second book in the More Than story, More Than Lovers. We’ve passed the hurdle of all the major edits, and now we’re just waiting to hear back from the line editor.The edits came through at a very apt time, seeing as...
by jessdee | Apr 15, 2013 | eBooks, editing, kindle, Samhain Publishing
(As posted on the International Heat Blog) A couple of weeks ago I received a letter from a reader and friend, who told me she’d just downloaded a copy of Ask Adam from Kindle and read the book. While she enjoyed the story, she found herself getting endlessly...
by jessdee | Feb 16, 2012 | Blurb, Coming Soon, editing
It’s been a marathon few weeks for me edit-wise. I have two books coming out soonish, one in May, one in July, and the books have been edited back to back. (Usually I have a couple months break between edits at least.) Now please don’t think edits only...
by jessdee | Oct 1, 2010 | Coming Soon, editing, writing
Wowska. I’m stunned. On Tuesday I finally completed Full House – the third and final novella in the Three of A Kind Series – and submitted it to my editor, Jennifer Miller. (Yep, lots of rewrites on that one. With thanx to Viv Arend, Fedora Chen and...
by jessdee | Sep 15, 2009 | editing, international heat
Sherry Ricardo posted the following blog at International Heat. I thought it was a brilliant topic, which offered some excellent advice. Recently I’ve spoken to two authors who have been desperately unhappy with edits they had received. Were the editors at...
by jessdee | Jan 13, 2009 | Cover art, editing, Samhain Publishing, writing
Don’t know about you, but I am one of those who loves tackling the first round of edits. It’s a chance for me to see my book in a whole new light – through my editor’s eyes. And I gotta say, my ed, Jennifer, picks up things I would never in a...