Second Skin is finally here…
About five years ago, I started working on Second Skin. It was intended to be released around 2006-ish, but I wasn’t quite happy with it, so I didn’t publish. I ended up getting distracted by a new book (Blood on the Tracks – formerly Blood & Thunder) and pretty much forgot all about it. Then, I started working on the now-defunct Derby Gal Magazine and the rest is history.
Over the last five years, though, I have gone back with intentions of re-visiting Second Skin and finally getting it out. Unfortunately, I was still unhappy with it and kept putting it aside for other books. Finally, a few months ago, I decided to dive in and get it done. The first edit was simple enough, just adding a few words here and there and changing a handful of things. I still wasn’t happy with the read-through, though, and ended up cutting half the book in the next edit – this is no exaggeration, I literally deleted half the book. I went through and made some big changes (including changing who the killer was!) until I was happy with it. Sadly, I lost the entire thing when my computer crashed, but my awesome brother made it magically re-appear and I backed it up in four different places, just in case.
I completed the last big edit last night and I have to say, I’m quite pleased with the way it turned out. I am in love with the characters (another thing that was re-vamped in the editing process) and I think the story came together really well. All I have to do now is a thorough read-through to make sure that everything is spelled correctly and check my grammar. After that, I have to do the layout for Kindle and we’re home free.
Some people have been wondering why I chose to publish exclusively on Kindle. It’s actually quite simple…Amazon provides the service for free, which is awesome. Also, I’m just not keen on publishing through Apple because they have censored some material in the past and given what they’ve censored, I cannot support that platform at this time. I have nothing against Apple, in fact I write on a MacBook, but censorship is just not cool. Barnes & Noble has the Nook, which I am interested in publishing through, but they haven’t sent me the info to do this yet. So, Kindle it is. The great thing is that Kindle offers free apps for everything (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, BlackBerry, Android, Mac & PC) so you don’t even have to buy one.
