It is ON. Oh my yes. Well, not too impressively quite yet given that I’ve been smacked upside the head with a cold all weekend, but in the state of mind I’ve been in, it’s oddly easier to do a word count reduction pass than it is to write actual new content. Which means of…

very kindly created an EPUB format file for me today out of the fourth draft manuscript, and I completely forgot to mention that made a PRC file for me at one point. Many thanks go out to both of these nice folks for this assistance! And, either file should then be convertible in Calibre or…

Ha, glancing back at the big revise and resubmit post, I realized I actually didn’t say what the editor’s big issue with the story structure was. Oops. Clearly, the post needed an edit pass. 😉 Anyway, I’d said that the structure of the The Dove, the Rook, and the Hawk is supposed to be “one…

OKAY! Given my last post, I am now doing an in-depth review of the editorial feedback from Carina Press, and beginning to organize notes for a plan of attack on how to address the various recommendations. However, given that this will be Lament‘s fifth draft (possibly sixth, if I do a separate word count reduction…

I finally heard back from Carina Press today about my submission of Lament of the Dove to them, and I gotta say, folks, this is hands down the best not-an-acceptance response I’ve had to a story to date. One of Carina’s editors sent me a very long and detailed feedback letter not only calling out…