As a writer, you hope your efforts will yield gold. You outline, research, write the first draft, then edit that draft, (over and over) and have others read your work. You send what you imagine is a nearly final draft to an agent or editor.
You wait. Because that’s what writers do. Then when you get the edits back you review the comments, decide what to change and what to keep. If you’re an Indie Author, you move on to publish.
Then you wait for sales and reviews. I did all of that with my first contemporary romance novel, “Domestic Goddess”.
The reviews were fine, but the book just didn’t feel “right”. So I pulled it from Amazon and sent it to a new editor.
My intuition was right. There were so many things that needed to be reviewed, fixed, modified, and changed. There were lots of things that were right: characters, storyline, plot, setting. But there were things my editor pointed out to me that hit that, “OK. I can fix that” note and I knew would make the book better.
I’m in the final stage of publishing that new, (hopefully improved) contemporary romance. It has a new title: “Confessions of a Domestic Goddess” that will fit with the planned Bachelor Bay series set in the San Juan Islands of Washington State.
True Confession: Sometimes you need to back up, take a long, hard look at your work and make changes.