The Author Guy Blog by Larry B. Gildersleeve

3rd May 2024

Hello out there,

Welcome back. I’m delighted to report the relationship with my new publisher, who is affiliated with powerhouse Simon & Schuster, is meeting or exceeding all expectations I had when I signed the exclusive contract with them back in December of last year.

As I’ve mentioned previously, a re-publication and re-release of my novel Blue by You will be my first book with them. Even though Blue received three international award recognitions in 2022/23, the book is being treated as a brand new manuscript. For the past two months, I’ve been working a ton of hours with a marvelous Toronto-based editor going line-by-line and word-by-word, metaphorically running a comb through tangles of POV (point of view) mis-steps, information stacking, setup and payoff, paragraphing, on and on.

I’m pleased to say that the first two of a three-step process (documental review andline edit) are now complete, and what was a very good book is now, I believe, a great one. We now move to the third step, copy/edit in order to have pristine finished product to turn over to interior formatting while the cover design folks step in and assume their role.

The remaining two steps are the actual production (initial print run will be 2,000 copies) and the commencement of marketing with an all-hands-on-deck “launch.”

No firm date for the launch has been established, but it will happen this year and I’ll be sure to keep you updated.

Until next week … Vay con Dios

Larry B. Gildersleeve

Location: Bowling Green, KY, USA

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