A Week Off

So it's spring break and the week off of work should result in a lot of writing. Right? Maybe. I'm nearly finished with the third read-through of KILLER EYES, and did it need a lot of revising. And it got it. But it's far from done. I have said many times here that I had revised both KILLER OF KILLERS and THE VASE more times than I can count. THE VASE has been edited twice by pros, and I'm sure it will undergo another round of edits when it gets picked up again.

As for KILLER OF KILLERS, I am still waiting for Melange to get to editing it. I'm getting a little antsy about that. Since it's pegged for a release in August, I sure hope they'll get to it by June. OK, so that leaves a couple months. In the meantime, I read through it once, made some minor revisions, and sent it to Nancy, the publisher over at Melange. I labeled it KILLER OF KILLERS 1.0, and I don't want to do that again until my editor gives it his editorial read-through.

I suppose I can revise it again and label it KILLER OF KILLERS 1.1, and then send it yet again. But I don't want to flood them with three or more different versions of the same manuscript. It's not like I don't have anything else to do. I have plenty of other manuscripts to work on. If not KILLER EYES, then I can always go back to JOHN DUNN. Or even THE VASE. A writer's life is never an idle one, unless that writer takes a break from writing.

And if I do that I can spend time with the family. (And I have.) Because no writer should ever forget about his family. (If he wants to stay married, that is.) I think some writers out there have been so focused on their writing, and so preoccupied with getting their book published, they end up divorced. I'm glad that never happened to me. Maybe I just have a committed wife. Yeah, that's gotta be it. A committed wife. She never liked that I spent time writing, but she never wavered from our marriage. What a woman!