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I'm 46, Married with two sons. This blog will document my attempt to get my children's novel published.
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Browsing Archive: February, 2015

The fun and the torture of a major edit.

Posted by Russell Sanderson on Wednesday, February 25, 2015, In : Writing update 

I’m well on with my edits now, having completed about 80% of the changes I think I need to make to satisfy the comments from the publishers, but now I’m getting to the end of the first re-draft, I’m reaching the point I always do, which is trying to overcome the crippling self-doubt (CSD) that I’ve just ruined the book.

This is quite a normal process for me (and from what I hear, from other writers,) but it’s still one of the least fun parts.  For me, the feedback/editing process h...


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Editing update

Posted by Russell Sanderson on Saturday, February 7, 2015, In : Writing update 
I really must update this blog more often.  I hadn't realised it had been November when I did my last one.

I'm stuck into the editing now.  Not one, but two publishers have expressed an interest and one of those has given detailed feedback.  The gist of it is that they love the story, they really love the character of Pandora Wolfe, but they feel the book slows down a bit in the middle section and loses some of the pace.

After a long chat before Christmas with my awesome agent, Ben Illis, I had...
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