This morning I got the
proof copies of the newest of my kid’s novels, my seventh book overall. This one
is book three in the series and is
titled, Yikes – My Neighbor’s A Vampire.
The book looked good, and formatting was spot on. My wife, as
always is my first reader when the proof copies come. Others will also read, one maybe two people, but my wife reads the stories first. She is a terrific first
reader as we have been married long enough that she will tell me the truth
about what doesn’t work, and what she does not like.
The problem – she found
something she didn’t like. Each chapter has a picture on the first page, Jan didn’t
like where I put some of them. In my first two books the pictures told a bit of
the story to follow, but in this one, I
put a few after the story on the heading for the next chapter. I thought it was
clever and creative, she didn’t think so, now looking at it, she’s right. Darn
it!
Looks like I will be
spending some time moving pictures around, along with the usual fixing of
things my readers find. Oh well, that’s what readers are for.
Work – work – work, a writer’s
job is seldom never done.
