Andromeda Rhoades Tranquility: The Local War (Book 3) Now at Step 4 of Editing

Happy end of February! I’m on the last step of the editing process! Everything is uploaded to Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing and I’m waiting on my author’s proof. One more quality control check of the physical product and Andromeda Rhoades Tranquility: The Local War (Book 3) will be ready to publish!

Step 1: Copy Edit 1: This edit focuses on significant changes, additions, and deletions. When I write a first draft, I immerse myself in the creative process. That’s great for storytelling, but messy when it comes to scenes, plots and subplots, characterization, settings, and story logic. The first copy edit corrects most of this.

Step 2: Copy Edit 2: I go through the book again, this time with the text fresher in my mind. Here, I mostly make tweaks to the edits from Step 1. Big changes are rare. This step also goes much faster.

Step 3: Line Edit 1: This is the least fun part of the edit process. I turn on “Show Formatting” in Word and go through the story line by line. This step ensures that all the formatting is correct, and helps to catch unwanted spaces, bad commas and other punctuation, poor grammar, and spelling errors that Word doesn’t catch, like rind when I meant ring.

Step 4: Line Edit 2: In this step, I upload my manuscript to Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, add the cover, and order a physical author’s copy. Then, I do another line edit. I don’t know what it is, but I catch errors in a physical copy that I never see on a computer screen, typically 50-100 errors. When this step is done, the book is ready to publish.

It usually takes 2-3 weeks to get and read the physical copy. Have an Awesome day!