In March 2015, Ann Sterzinger, an editor and proof reader who is having a hard time marketing her skill set since so few publishers care much about typos anymore, profiled my work in an article for Takimag titled Graphomaniac. She was thrilled at my content and nonplused at the fact that I had no editor, or even proof reader.

Halfway through April 2015 a lady who read that article, who edits software and medical texts for a living, offered her services as a proofreader. That enabled me to publish four books in April instead of the two I had planned on. She was bothered by some of the fiction content and begged off of certain projects.

She has since said, “After reading Little Feet Going Nowhere, I was like, ‘Yuck, never again—enough beautifully wrought empathetically exposed characters facing inevitable doom!' I think Easy Chair and Buzzkill kind of loosened me up though. You know, I think you either wrecked my empathy impulse with your apocalyptic fiction or somehow helped me develop a brain filter—I’m actually enjoying RetroGenesis. This apocalypse stuff must be in your blood. I‘d like a promotion to editor—I can explain to you the difference if you want—on some of these projects.

“I can see that you use the tagging system to build books online. You are juggling a crazy number of commitments. I realize that at a certain point that the creative impulse takes over and you dash off the rest of one of these books and let the other balls you are juggling fall. That will be simple enough to deal with. What would help is if you could write a priority list. What is the next one you plan on finishing? What are the ones you expect to keep on the back burner, etc.”

D.L. has figured out how to use the front end of the website and her smart phone and emails to highlight necessary deletions, corrections and additions in 2 colors. Her doing this will save me 40 reading/writing hours per month and result in cleaner books. I can only pay her with free books, so that is quite amazing. I never thought to ask someone to do so much work for complimentary copies. The following writing schedule is posted for her use, and for your curiosity, as she is basically using the front end of the website as her galley. The following lists will be updated as necessary.

I will e-mail you the word file for Ghosts of The Sunset World, which is 110,000 words. It will just need proofed for the 2nd edition. All of the Sunset Saga books will be edited into a 3rd edition set by Jamie King for release with additional material.

These are listed in the order to be completed, with the year I intend to complete them. I will endeavor to do 1 post per week for each of these books. For the nonfiction titles and the three Moby Dick volumes, I will publish the entire item on the site before compiling it into print form. As of 4/27/15 only the first 4 are in progress, and #4 will not begin posting until after the Cities of Dust serial is done [probably in late summer].

1. The Pale Usher: Moby Dick Part 1, 2015

2. A Sickness of the Heart, nonfiction, 2016

3. A Thousand Years in His Soul, nofiction, 2016

4. Seven Moons Deep, Sunset Saga, 2016

5. This Hy’ar Coon, nonfiction, 2016

6. Enter Ahab, Moby Dick Part 1, Summer 2016

7. 40,000 Years From Home, nonfiction, 2017

8. The Whale: Moby Dick Part 3,2017

Those listed are all currently initiated except for 8-9 which only exist in outline. I want to complete all of these this year, with the targeted month of print publication noted to the right.

1. RetroGenesis, May

2. Hemavore, June

3. White Wednesday, nonfiction, June

4. Of Lions and Men, nonfiction, July

5. Poet, July

6. Your Trojan Horse, nonfiction, August

7. The Spiral Case, August

8. Yusef of the Dusk, September

9. Mantid, December

10. Under the Crescent, December

11. Let the Weak Fall, nonfiction, January, 2016

12. White Wednesday #2, nonfiction, January, 2016

13. [I know, I’m a dick] Graphomania #1, nonfiction, January, 2016, anthology which I will compile and forward as a word document the first week of 2016

Thank you so much D.L.