THE VASE Better Than Ever

After making KILLER OF KILLERS better than ever, now I've made THE VASE better than ever, too. I fixed all the ellipses and em dashes, by reducing how many are in there and making no spaces on either side of them. I've reduced the frequency of exclamation points, too.

And like I knew I would, I improved the writing while I was at it. Just like I did for KILLER OF KILLERS. It came down to a final read through for KOK, because it was crunch time. My editor was all set to send it in for publication. But as I posted at the time, I was waiting for one more round of edits. I was mildly surprised when my editor told me it didn't need another round. But I insisted. I knew I could make the writing even better, and I wanted to do it. You know, the last chance type of thing.

And I did. But THE VASE hasn't had that crunch time moment. I'm going to submit it to at least three more publishers, and I just finished reading through it, fixing those ellipses, em dashes and exclamation points.

But since it's not crunch time yet, I think I'll read through it still one more time. And this time will be for the specific purpose of addressing POV.

For KILLER OF KILLERS, my editors, (I had two of them) insisted to not have any POV switching occur during the same scene. And that was a major fix that I put it through, but it got done. In THE VASE during that last read through, I noted some places where that happened. I will have that in mind, now, since everything else in that manuscript is so polished, it's gleaming off the monitor.