Editing Mister D

A steam powered writing project

I've been contemplating branching out into editing for years now, and I've finally taken a concrete step toward that goal. I ran a short contest here at Wattpad and found @Pete_Oxley, a talented writer who is working on a kind of steampunk series featuring a mysterious character known only as Mister D. We're going to be collaborating on a project to get Pete's intriguing stories refined into a finely tuned, hugely marketable ebook for sale at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and all the usual suspects.

As this project progresses, We'll be posting selected excerpts of our work, our communications, and behind-the-scenes activity of getting a manuscript from draft to print. We'll even be building Pete's social media platform and doing some basic promotion. If you're a writer, you'll learn a lot by following along. Even if you're not a writer, this ought to be an entertaining look at the brave new world of ebook self-publishing.

You can follow the project from Pete's perspective, too, in his Wattpad book, "Developing Mister D." Just click the "external link" link on the right.

I've just asked Pete a whole slew of questions to get a better handle on where he's going with his stories, and as soon as I get some answers, I'll be posting some of our work here. Stay tuned...