Victory at last!

After a long and arduous battle, I finally defeated the editing monster and released ‘Wave of Truth’ early this morning.

To celebrate, the release, books one through three will be on sale in the US from October 13th through the 19th and in the UK from the 14th through the 20th.

Honestly, I find that the pre-release editing process is the worst part of publishing. It always takes three times as long as I planned to complete the final read through.

So I’ve decided to share a little bit about the process, in the hopes that talking about it will help me remember for next time.

‘Wave of Truth’ was meant to be available by Noon on October the 9th. Of course I was already running seriously behind schedule by Friday morning.

I spent all of Thursday going through the last of the corrections and suggestions from my volunteer editors.

Once that was finished, I started on the final read through. I only made it through the first three chapters, which translates to about 25%.

I started again bright and early Friday morning, and reviewed three more chapters. Which had me at about 65% complete.

Saturday I tackled the last four chapters and finishing the read through right around 1:00 am Sunday morning.

I spent another 3 hours on formatting and final details like the table of contents, playlist, acknowledgements, and publishing. The upload completed right after 4:00 am.

All in all, I spent approximately 40 hours going through Wave of Truth between Thursday and Sunday.

Of course, I forgot that it can take up to 48 hours for the book to be available on Kindle once it’s, uploaded.