A Story About Editing A Story

I gave a copy of The Protector a girlfriend. As she read, she'd make comments or questions. I'd warned her that I've never read the published version, the one the editor cut 60 pgs out w/out my final looksee (just couldn't do it). Anyway, one of her questions was: "What's in Vivi's note that she gave Jazz?" I'd told her that it should be in the story but I couldn't, without comparison with my original ms, tell her off the top of my head.

By the time she finished the book, her one main question was still about this note; it didn't matter it wasn't an important message, just that she felt she should know what was in it! So tonight, while doing my final FINAL edits for the re-issue (titled just PROTECTOR), where I'm comparing line-by-line the published book with my own original manuscript, I found the answer. My editor had cut out two lines referring to this note. Again, yeah, the note wasn't important to the plot but in the published version, Jazz never mentioned it again after Vivi slipped it to him. Drove my friend crazy :P.

There are other missing plot elements like this in The Protector that I'm re-adding back into the story. One of these is Stefan's real identity. I haven't reached that part yet.

Protector sure reads more cohesively than The Protector!

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Navy SEALs here, there, everywhere :D

Promoting SEAL of my Dreams, I wrote a post titled "The Appeal of the Military Hero" for Novelthoughts. Please do drop by and comment for a chance to win the Kindle version of the anthology!

We're all so excited and happy about the buzz. Even the SEALs are promoting it because all the proceeds go to Veteran's Research Corporation. Here's the link to their blog:

Navy SEALs Blog

Woot!

Lastly, I'm planning to attend the National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum Muster XXVI which is held during Veteran's Day weekend. Going to watch some SEALs and Navy servicemen do their thing :). I'll even bring a couple of copies of the anthology, just in case I get a chance to give them away to some vets.

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Hunter (Kindle Version) is Up!

I'm so excited! Finally, HUNTER is ready for Kindle owners! It's priced at $3.99.

PRINT version won't be out for another week. I'm still waiting for a physical copy to review first.

NOOK readers, don't worry. Hopefully, HUNTER will be available in a few days too :).

I hope to get SLEEPER and PROTECTOR out within the month but what with working on the two new books (DANGEROUSLY HOT antho and Grace McNeil's story) for Christmas, it's going to be interesting to see whether I can keep those goals I told you about a few months ago!

Here's the new cover. And the link to Amazon Kindle is right below it.

Buy HUNTER (Kindle)

I love this cover, btw :).

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