Cherry Picking - Chapter 1&2

Finally, I have been able to get to at least a stage where I can put the first TWO chapters here. It is of course subject to change in the end, as you are reading a work in progress. But this will give you a good enough feel for things to come. Please enjoy it and do let me know what you think!

Tim Heath

***Removed in June 2012 as the book is now out***

But you can 'Look Inside' on the Amazon page and start reading the first few pages here

Facebook Group Starts

A warm welcome to those of you who have reached this blog via the facebook group.

In a little while I hope to have the first chapter, or so, of my book Cherry Picking right here on this blog!

But for now, there are a few older entries that I've tried to write during the process of finishing the book, including an intro to the characters.

Thanks for visiting, and please stay tuned!

Tim.

More Progress

Am now into chapter 27 of the second edit.

The one person to read it so far (up to about chapter 10 and this being my wife!) is very happy with it and wants to read more.

I wanted to get the second edit finished by the end of March, and then have people start reading it. The reading part has at least already started, and I should, I hope, be able to do the remaining four and a half chapters by the end of the month.

What next?

Well, once I finish I think I will run through a few of the comments already from my wife, and straighten anything out that I can before getting some other friends to read it who have publishing experience. In time I will put some of the opening scenes ONLY here on this blog, and promote it by setting up a Facebook group that people can join.

When its out there, being read, I will start the process of looking for an agent/publisher, but probably in about May/June. Any time before that I will start thoughts on another book. There are a few ideas I have been working on, and I know what ever one I choose to do next will be an exciting project as they are all interesting stories.

So keep in touch, stay connected and watch this space!

Progress

Well the second edit of the book Cherry Picking is going really well. I am up to chapter 17 now but more excitingly my wife (being the first person to read it yet) has just started reading the work now, as I managed to print out the first 16 chapters yesterday!

So I'm really excited to have got to this stage - her early thoughts are what I could hope for in the book. Over the next few weeks there will be some other people who I'm getting to read the work, so now its really the test time - will it make it or won't it! If I can't captivate these people who know me (and therefore have more reason to want to read it than the average person) then it'll be hard to expect others too.

So progress on the editing front and process in general. At last!!

Let the editing begin

I finally finished the first draft in the first week of January. It came in at around 115,000 which I am happy with as a starting point.

I've now started the editing process which I am maybe four weeks into? Today I got up to chapter 9. I am finding that I am not changing major chunks of it, just checking for errors and making sure it is consistent. The first 6 chapters or so had been written up to about three years ago I think so that's a long time for things to change.

I was really looking forward to this phase of things, though at the moment with the majority of the way still to go it is a little hard going. Once I get to about chapter 20 I guess the end is in sight so that should motivate me enough to press on for the finish.

If I could get it done by around March that would leave a good amount of time for the next stage of things to get done before the summer, which is still when I would like to have something ready to send to an agent and/or publisher.

So things press on. Progress is slow but moving along.