I thought I’d start with the good news. I had been tweaking and re-writing all of Not So Innocent for the last few years. So the Alpha readers only had the last few chapters to really delve into a lot of notes. They did have a lot of notes for the rest of the story but not nearly as many as the last 10 chapters. At the moment I am hoping the developmental editor will have time to review and get back to me in the next month. I’m going to put give y’all a list on what is involved in my editing process and this is particularly different than my last one because, while, it is not quite a sequel, it is a continuation of a side-character arc. It’s important, to me, that this book is a book on its own and that you will not have need to read Shattered Glass in order for it to make sense. But of course Shattered Glass will only be an enhancement to it and vice versa.

The first stage is developmental editing and you can read more about that here. This is more of a plot/character development overview and to see where maybe plot lines have gone astray or been dropped in improperly.

I will then go on to edit from there on my own, fixing all the problems that the developmental editing found. I imagine that will take a few weeks to a month.

Then I’ll send it for line editing which is sort of to clean up the language/prose/structure etc.

Back to me for more editing.

Then back to the editor for a proofreading.

Then back to me

And then I will be formatting it and getting it ready for publishing.

I do plan on changing the cover for not so innocent I’m not sure exactly what I’m gonna do it’s not gonna be that different but I do want to fix a few things. I don’t imagine that will take very long.

But depending on how you’re all looking at the following info right now I guess the rest of the news is either really awesome news (which it is for me) or kind of bad news for you guys.

You probably wonder where I went. I have pretty much told everyone about my depression but what I didn’t say is when I showed up in 2018 we were hopeful and on our way to having a child but circumstances did not go through and I fell into a really bad place. That bad place sucked me in for a number of years. I didn’t really talk to anybody or see anybody or do much of anything. It took a good friend to pull me out of that dark place. But not only that in July we are expecting our first. So I am over the moon and also a little sad because I have had this rush of joy from writing again. And I’m not really sure if I am going to be delayed more or if this is actually going to give me more time. Since I will be staying home.

As it is now I am hopeful for February 22 as the publishing date. That is the goal. That does not prohibit me from getting it out earlier and I will let everybody know the process.

<3 ty for listening. There is no cat tax today cuz i’m on my laptop. I promise newbie pics when i update next time.

PS: this was the most dry as fuck message I’ve ever put out to the world. In my defense it turns out that when you neglect the world for a few years, your entire website goes to shit and you go to update everyone with a post and instead you crash your website, have to update your PHP, have problems with your HT access, and all of your word press addons and themes are shot to shit.

Note to self: cat tax and Visine for all readers.