Whoever invented polybuteline pipe should be drawn and quartered.  We had yet another hot water leak in our house that went undetected for possibly months.  The whole underside of the house had standing water and was like a sauna.  Our house is now all torn apart while mold issues and reconstruction happens.  We’re also going to have the whole thing replumbed, which we have to pay for ourselves.  That’s not covered by the homeowner’s insurance, while the rest of the work is.

The long and the short of it is that we’re staying in a hotel right now for a month or so while all this happens.  I wasn’t able to do any work on the re-edits while we packed everything up to move out of our house, but now that we’re in a hotel, I’ve been able to get quite a bit done.  I just finished re-editing chapter 13 of book 8, and added just over 2,000 words to it.  Unfortunately, I’ll probably be removing that many words from the next chapter, because there’s a huge section in it that really serves no purpose and does nothing to advance the story.  I originally put it in there for a specific reason, but with experience, you learn that there are better ways to deal with certain things in your writing that you may not have considered the first time around when you were so eager to just get the story out.  It’s not the first time I cut a lengthy scene from one of the books, but it’s the first time I’ve cut any scenes from the 2nd edition books.  The other scenes I cut were done during the first edition edits.

Where it sits right now is that I’ll probably finish both editing passes on this one, and then prep this one and the 7th booth for publishing at the same time.  Then once that’s done, I’ll move onto the 9th book, which was a rather emotional one, and added some cool new elements to the story.  I’ve been really looking forward to getting to that one, since it brings some new characters into the story that had heretofore only been mentioned.

Anyway, that’s it for now.  I haven’t done an update in a long time, so I figured it was about time I did one. 🙂

I totally forgot to unpublish Cindy’s Story when I unpublished the Unseen Things series as I work my way to re-editing everything into 2nd editions.  I’ll republish it when I get the 2nd edition done, but that won’t be until I complete the 2nd editions of the series.

The editing is totally done on the 2nd edition of book 6.  I just need to finish all the other stuff now so I can publish it.  I’ve been working on the editing for the 2nd edition of book 7, so I really need to just take a day and finish up with book 6 before I get too awful far into it.  I remembered the other day that I haven’t been updating the covers and descriptions for the 2nd edition books here on the site.  I need to try to remember to do that at some point.  For right now, they’re still all at 1st edition.

Anyway, gonna have some lunch and then get back to work. 🙂

The 2nd edition version of book 5 of the series, Immortals, has now been completed and published on all platforms, including the print version, which is available on Amazon.  I’m currently working on the second editing pass of book six.  I’m not sure how long it’ll be before I’m able to complete it and get it published, but I’m thinking it’ll probably be around three weeks or so since the first editing pass is already done.

Anyway, that’s it for now.  I need some sleep, so I can get back to work. 🙂

The re-edit is completed on book 5, Immortals, but since I usually take a little break between finishing the re-edit and doing all the finish work that comes after it, I decided to get started on the 2nd edition re-edit of book 6, Division. I’m going to bounce back and forth between working on both, and that way I can keep making forward progress with the re-edits, without having too much time off in between. So far I’ve got the first chapter done, and I’ve already added 1,103 words just on the first pass.

Anyway, tomorrow I’ll spend some time doing more work on book 5. I have to re-do the cover, make a print cover, make the print version, write new author notes, redo all the metadata, etc… It’s very time consuming and tedious, which is why I’ve decided to do things this way from now on. I think it’ll help smooth out the process a bit.

I finally finished the second edition re-edit of book 5, Immortals. I added 26,793 words to the story, which is roughly about four chapters worth of material. That seems to be the average in these re-edits so far, which is working out quite well. Anyway, now I just have to do all the rest of the stuff that comes after, which is a pretty massive project in and of itself. I just need to focus on one thing at a time, and I’ll get through it.