We've gone quiet of late, stuck as we are between contract and publication. And stuck as Karin is in hospital. So here's an update.
Things are moving behind the scenes. We have completed a structural edit based on feedback from our Carina editors. Their feedback was brilliant - both encouraging and constructive. We've come to realise that the book takes a while to ignite. Until Paris, in fact, the fourth chapter, some 50 pages in. We've tried to fix this as best we can.
I was reading that Amazon/Kindle already has the capability to tell authors at what points readers stop reading their book. That's a mixture of fascinating and terrifying I'd have thought. Future authors will be treated differently. Early drafts will be subject to Kindle focus groups. The readership of the first week's sales will be scrutinised, not by number, not by 5 star reviews, but by page clicks. "27% of readers are giving up on chapter 3, 18% skipping chapter 4 entirely, and only 2% reading in one sitting. On the plus side, the sex scene in chapter 14 is getting plenty of re-reads."
Anyway, ahead of such a brave new world, we've sent in our dedications, biographies and photos. Next step - some poor soul is to do a copy-edit. We've thrown it back and forth between the two of us so many times it's a hell of a mess. That's our excuse anyway. We wish them luck.
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