I’ve been remiss. I’ve been procrastinating. I have a series of three novels. Two of them are written. Neither has been rewritten or edited. I keep finding excuses not to. The stories are great and the first drafts are good. But I don’t find rewriting and editing something I enjoy. It’s too much like real productive work. “I’m a writer, Jim. I’m not a damn editor.” You get the idea.

So why don’t I just hire an editor? I hear some of you ask—at least in my mind. Simple. I don’t make enough on book sales to justify (read afford) an editor for a first draft. That amounts to a hiring and paying a development editor. That means I need to rewrite/edit the first three to four drafts before I hand it over to an actual line editor. You thought writing was easy and just required a pen or pencil and a sheet of paper? Ha! Welcome to the future.

So, I do my story development, rewrites, and editing. I even do the first pass on line edits. I think I will do a decent job. But it’s still a tedious and lonely process.

I enjoy writing. I don’t enjoy editing, but it’s a necessary skill and has to be done. And as the old line goes, someone has to do it. And I’m the only one around.

Anyway, I need to really focus on the rewrites and edits of “Coins of Destiny I - AL” My goal is to release the book before June. Then, I can release book two in the series during the holidays.

Oh, and I need to finish writing book three.