Monday, May 27, 2013

String Weavers re-edited

On Christmas Eve I received a letter from River City Publishing Company. STRING WEAVERS was not the winner of the Fred Bonnie Award. I had waited over a year to get that verdict. I entered STRING WEAVERS in the Young Adult Division of Amazon's Create Space Breakthrough Novel Contest in January. It made it to the second cutting. After Peg and Tawney read the middle section for me, they zeroed in  on the problem --- the voice of the narrator is an adult, not a young adult. I thought long and hard about the book and have decided it never should have been put in first person. The story needs to be told from the perspective of the omniscient third party. Granbecca needs to tell some of Michael's story. Michael needs to tell most of it, but there needs to be some distance in the telling. I am in the midst of a major rewrite again. This time I'll send it out to maybe 15 carefully chosen agents and then self-publish if it doesn't find a publishing house home.