Anxiety

I am about three weeks into my adventure in selling a book and I have started to feel a little bit of anxiety about the whole thing.  I'm not worried about the money... at least not yet... I am anxious about getting feedback from readers.

So far, the feedback has been positive, albeit limited... most of it coming from friends of mine either personally or via e-mail.  That's okay.  I think.

Then there's the feedback from my harshest critic.

Me.

There were still a few tweaks and tucks I could have put into the finished product which I didn't.  Glenn Michaels' crisis of conscience at the beginning of the book could have been more pronounced, for instance.  But the fact of the matter is that if I did still yet another re-write, the book would have been delayed, hence delaying the sequel I am working on at the moment.

Perhaps I could do what Douglas Adams did with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - in his biography it was mentioned that Adams never thought of any of his works as being complete.  "Hitchhikers" went from being a radio play to a television series to a book to a movie, each verion being just a little bit different from the one previous.

Too much work or not enough?  There has to be balance in there somewhere.

In the meantime, I'll let be what is while doing countless re-writes of the next project(s) involving some of the characters you've already met in Magnolia, as well as characters who have been swimming around in my head for over 30 years, now.

Oh, and thanks for the feedback.  Now, tell others.

Be Seeing You!

bdharrell