Hello and happy Friday!

Are you writing today? I hope so, I’m writing a little mostly editing You Don’t Know Me. I got it back from the editing service the other day and though it’s a basic edit; making sure words are spelled correctly, punctuation is correct, use of the proper word, I still found some of the suggestions not to my liking so I kept the text as it was.

I wondered though if this had been an edit by a popular editor at Penguin Worldwide for instance would I have agreed immediately to all suggestions then done them at the speed of light with no back talk versus hesitating over them now ( and not making a number of them) as suggested by the editing person contracted with Lulu Publishing.

Because it was Penguin would I feel obligated to make all corrections and changes because it’s Penguin and I would feel so grateful they had a greed to publish my book I’d do whatever asked. I try not to think about it because I want to believe I would not make any changes I felt would tamper with the story or the characters or at the very least bring forth my own arguments why I would not make the changes; the problem is I’m not so sure. Deep deep deep deep down, I know I’d be open to any suggestions and probably make the changes. Yuck.

But for now I don’t have that problem to prey on my mind, I smile as I decide I won’t make this change or the next, that I’ll use my word instead of their’s and it feels good to be in control and know my story is going the way I want it to; the way I wrote it

If you have any comments or suggestions please e-mail me at my new address: shabazzl@adasbcc.org.

Until next time, God willing,

Lori