My editors are a gift from God.
After spending many hours writing and rewriting my books I tend to lose focus. The story makes sense to me because I know my characters inside out. I begin to worry whether a new reader will like my book.My cousin, Mary Lynn gets the first draft. When I give it to her I worry until I get it back. She checks grammar and punctuation. If something seems confusing she points out the problem. She hates compound sentences. Mary Lynn is the first person to get to know my characters. In the new book, Four Season Friends there are so many characters I was worried it would be confusing. But when the phone call came, when she finished reading it the first time through, she said she loved the characters in the book. I felt so relieved.
