Editing… It’s not just books you know!

After spending an age and a half scrupulously combing through the online paperback review checker for my poetry book (due for release soon!) and then doing the same for the Kindle edition, submitting for reviews, finding tiny errors then correcting and resubmitting, oh about a thousand times (slight exaggeration๐Ÿ˜‹), I thought I would be done editing for a while at least.

But no…. That appears not to be the case!


Now I’m also in the throes of writing my first ever end of year reports!

Oh what joy! ๐Ÿ˜

This is one of the hardest tasks I have had to do! Trying to be positive, where maybe you only have negative things in your mind. I’m becoming a real Spin Doctor here (another string to my bow?๐Ÿ˜œ)

The first editions are almost complete, I think I have 6 more to go, then we sit, my editor (co-teacher) and I, reading each other’s takes and politely trying to change things we don’t necessarily agree with! She is doing one half, I am doing the other, the we get to be each others editors!

It won’t end there.. The cover is not the issue, it’s the data entry that then has to be synced with the reports… Waaaaay too technological!!!!

Oh, and hopefully I’ll get my proof copy today of my actual book! Admittedly I ordered it when I did the first edit check, thinking all was perfect, then I found a few school girl, and formatting errors. Those have been sorted and resubmitted, but once I have a physical copy in my hand, I will press that PUBLISH button, and don’t worry, you’ll definitely hear about it!!!!

Can I Get A Drumroll? ANNOUNCEMENT and COVER REVEAL!

Well, after months of deliberating, and weeks of to-ing and fro-ing, I am finally ready to announce that my first book, an anthology of my poetry is almost ready for publishing!

Here is the finished cover, lovingly produced for me by the wonderfully talented Story Reading Ape, Chris Graham!

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I’ll be back with more information with regards to the publishing date.

I have spent an age on formatting the Kindle version, and am just awaiting the paperback proof copy!

Ooooh! I am so excited!!!!! And I had to share it with you!

Please let me know what you think of the cover, and the anthology name!

 

RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #101 Fresh&Wind

Monday is Ronovan’s Weekly Haiku Challenge… Check it outย here.

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The prompt words, Fresh & Wind

Aย selection…

Wind
A stench, not so fresh
Is lingering in the air
Oops! Pardon me…Wind!

Hayfever
The freshly cut grass
blowing pollen through the wind
not great for hayfever!

Awakening
A crisp breeze blowing
Refreshing my memories
Awakening thoughts

Ritu 2016

 

TJ’s Household Haiku – Dew

Yesterday TJ decided to shake up the format of his Haiku Challenge. it is no longer going to be just household items, but anything, and there will be not one prompt, but two: aย word prompt and a photo prompt. Check it outย here.

And this is my take…

 

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Image from Pixabay

 

Glistening moisture
Quenching thirst of living things
Nature’s beverage

Ritu 2016

Sues’s Photo prompt #writephoto โ€“ walking on air

Another beautiful photo prompt ย from Sue…

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A blanket of cloud
Covers the mossy ground
Hiding what’s below
An illusion created
I feel I could walk on air

Ritu 2016

#writephoto

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