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Progress Report<\/h2>\n

I’ve been conspicuously absent from my blog, so I thought it was about time I got my skates on and wrote a post. This one is a progress report on my work-in-progress –\u00a0It<\/strong> Happened in Gastown<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

The book is written. Yay! There could be an epilogue but that can be written and edited separately.<\/p>\n

Currently, this episode of the “It Happened” series is longer than the first (It Happened on Dufferin Terrace<\/a><\/strong><\/em>), but that’s okay. Many series have different length books in them. Harry Potter comes to mind.<\/p>\n

It Happened in Gastown<\/strong><\/em> has been through Grammarly – copied and pasted from Scrivener one scene at at a time – and corrections made in both applications.<\/p>\n

Next, I compiled the entire document to word format (.docx) using Scrivener and imported it to Autocrit<\/a>. That process wasn’t without its challenges. It seems the version of Safari I’m running on my MacBook Air and Autocrit didn’t like each other. Only a portion of my document loaded. Nothing past chapter 15 and there are 21 chapters in total.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Kevin at Autocrit, that problem is sorted and I’m happily editing away using Chrome. Again, I’m making the changes in both applications so if something goes pear-shaped (as things sometimes do), I’ll have an up-to-date copy.<\/p>\n

The Office 365 version of Word has the ability to read your manuscript back to you, but since I don’t have that version, I depend on either Scrivener or Natural Reader to do this step for me. The beauty of doing it in Scrivener is the corrections only need to be made once.<\/p>\n

Finally, it’s off to my readers who will undoubtedly pick out errors that slipped through the cracks.<\/p>\n

My plan is to post a cover reveal at some point during this process with pre-order links for kindle and kobo.<\/p>\n

If you would be interested in hosting a cover reveal for It Happened in Gastown<\/strong><\/em>, leave a comment and I’ll get back to you with the details.<\/p>\n

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Progress Report I’ve been conspicuously absent from my blog, so I thought it was about time I got my skates on and wrote a post. This one is a progress report on my work-in-progress –\u00a0It Happened in Gastown. The book is written. Yay! 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