Phew. I really wanted to use my time off to complete Hope Is A Six Letter Word, and we’re there, after several days of intense corrections from my proofer, and another ‘Read Aloud’ edit (using the inbuilt functionality of Word) which I can’t recommend enough. Even with the best proofing in the World, hearing the words out loud picks up all those little ‘so’ instead of ‘to’ moments, and where you’re used the same terminology too many times within a paragraph. With a book like ‘Hope’, it also helps to pick up errant tenses, where ‘I’ should be ‘I’d’ for example. So we’re ready for e-book and paperback formatting, and the real work begins, in trying to get people interested in the bloody thing!
So now its onto the hardest part. I’ve created a few ‘mood boards’, to try and pick up some interest, but while the French translations are being triple checked for me, I need to try and drum up some ARC (review copy) readers, hopefully with some lovely attractive blogs, and hopefully who like it. If you fit that category, please feel free to leave me a message or tweet me.
At the same time, which completing ‘Hope’ is a great achievement, I’d been hoping to use my time off for a research trip for the next (provisionally titled ‘Hush’). Sadly, the storms mean North Wales might not be the best of places to be wandering round up big hills, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed for an improvement in conditions.
Stay safe,
Kit