OLD TOWN

I am still having problems with this idiotic program. I had to diddle with every button on my blog to finally find a way to get in. For techie ignoramuses (ignoramusi??) like me, it's torture!

Anyway, I wanted to post some photos I sent to the guy working on my new light mystery cover.

We went over to Old Town on the mainland, where there are lots of old houses. Some are renovated and spiffy but some, sadly, are falling down. Anyway,my guy snapped away to his heart's content. Many of the houses he photographed weren't suitable for a cover, lovely as they were, but three were kind of what we needed. He's worked on them to take out power lines and cars, naturally.

The interesting part came later, when I read the crime blotter in the paper. Evidently, the same day we were walking around taking pictures, police arrested a man wandering naked in that part of town. I don't think he was taking pictures.

Come to think of it, I don't know what he was doing! It was a fairly warm day but...

COVER for THE MAN IN THE BOAT

I'm very excited because I got my cover for the book coming out in March from MuseItUp Publishing. Suzannah Safi did a great job, I think, showing the stunned heroine confronting a wounded man who runs his boat up on the bank beside her.

FINAL GALLEYS

So I got the final galleys for THE MAN IN THE BOAT this past week. As I'm going through them with a fine tooth comb since this is the very last chance to correct typos or other simple mistakes (e.g., the hero was working in clay, then marble, then clay again for the same piece), I notice awkward phrases, unnecessary words, and other stuff I'm always telling other people not to do.

How can this happen? I ask myself. I had a copy editor and a line editor. They went through it, sent me corrections, I sent it back, they went through it again, sent it back to me, I sent it back to them... Altogether the three of us went through the blooming manuscript eight or more times!

I guess the truth is, there are always things we could do better. Anyway, the galley corrections are now in. I'm still waiting on my cover art though. I'm anxious to see what it looks like!