3/4s of a mistake

(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...

Edit Induced Exhaustion

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...

Three Of A Kind: Full House

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...

Wise Words From an Editor

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...