The Dark Menace is born

After endless hours of research, The Dark Menace is born. I’ve completed character sketches, plot outline, chapter summaries, and am still in the throes of researching the Shadow People and the Hat Man.

After the research, the writing begins. Three drafts. After writing, editing begins.

After one editing pass, primarily concentrating on obvious inconsistencies, plot holes, grammar, spelling and punctuation, the manuscript will go to a beta reader to try and get a general sense if it’s even a good story.

On the second and third editing passes, I will incorporate suggestions as well as examining plot, character development, motivational inconsistencies, cadence, conciseness, story arc, word redundancy, pace, point of view, believability, dialogue, etc.

After a month of rewrites and revision, The Dark Menace will meet my editor. The talented Winslow Eliot, who represents New York Times bestselling authors, will apply another layer of polish and return it. After two more thorough coats of wax, The Dark Menace enters the publishing pipeline for yet one more proofread before it will be formatted for ebook and paperback distribution to major book retailers.

Wow. That’s a lot of editing and rewrites. Six editing passes in total before it’s finally released.

Here’s a short summary to whet your appetite:

Mysterious and terrifying attacks by the Shadow People and the Hat Man lead a nightmare-plagued man to suspect an enigmatic doctor has accidentally opened a portal to hell.

Look for it soon in book stores near you.

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