This blog is about cats: cats in art, cats in stories, cats as pets, unusual cats, cats with unusual characteristics, cat maladies, people who love cats, and so much more. Today I want to talk about writing dilemmas—or one might say, authoring CATastrophes.
All writers have them. While some have trouble coming up with plots, developing characters, keeping characters and storylines straight, or even making themselves sit down and write, others suffer from opposite maladies. For example, I have so many plots going on, I sometimes think my head will explode. Rather than difficulty finding time to write, I am so addicted to writing that I don’t want to quit. It’s four twenty-two a.m. as I write this blog, for heaven’s sake.
Editing is an extremely important element to writing for an audience. Some of the things writers miss in their stories are laughable, others are seriously lame. Not only must an author self-edit his book many, many, many times before publication, he should run it past the eyes of one or more excellent editors/proofreaders. You might be surprised how many times an author can read his manuscript and still miss the use of “is” instead of “his,” or “or” instead of “of,” or the misspelling of a character’s name—even worse, he might use a different name because he changed it midway and forgot to change all instances.
Miss Bella has good taste
I believe that authorship comes with a huge responsibility to your audience—to give them what they want whether it is to entertain, educate or inform. In my Klepto Cat Mysteries, I do my best to offer new and different storylines with lots of surprises (twists and turns) and plenty of kitty-cat action, while maintaining the personality of the characters you’ve grown to enjoy. If you like light mysteries and you haven’t read a Klepto Cat Mystery, you have 14 of them to become acquainted with. that’s right—14.
We’ve come out with all of the stories in ebook form first and later produce the print version. Due to some strong public demand, however, we’re working to catch up publication of the print copies to the ebooks, so we’ll be coming out with them simultaneously. We’re ready to launch number 11 in the series as a print book this week. Watch for the official announcement. That leaves 3 books to put into print and we should accomplish that within the next three months. Something for you paperbook readers to look forward to.
In the meantime, check out the entire Klepto Cat Mystery series as it stands today here: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_13?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=klepto+cat+mysteries&sprefix=klepto+cat+my%2Caps%2C259
