Watching Adele making a mess of her first attempt to sing a tribute to George Michael, the other night, was a reminder of how professional she is. She stopped the performance, apologised to the audience and started the song again, from scratch. The second attempt was pitch-perfect. What a wonderful, talented and beautiful performer she is.<\/p>\n
Writing is really quite similar. Good writers use the experience gleaned from reviews and feedback to make sure that their books are a perfect as possible. I know, as a writer that it is still quite possible to publish an edited book and discover, after the event, that there are errors in it. It happens. The mark of a professional writer and a good publisher is that these issues are addressed. Under the rules of ISBN registration there is a limit to what you can alter, in a book, before it needs a new ISBN number. However, most books have the flexibility for small changes to be made, providing the registered page count remains the same.<\/p>\n
For me, part of this process involved some radical rethinking on how my books were presented. I moved from a pen-name to publishing under my real name. I moved from a miss-mash of titles to a coherent look to my books. My books were so radically altered that people who read them when they were first published, would see the difference – although the plots are unchanged and the bulk of the stories remain as first written, it would be disingenuous to suggest that they haven’t been influenced by the changes that I have gone through as an author. What was acceptable, when I started, is not acceptable to me now that I have four books behind me. Which I think is as it should be.<\/p>\n
So, to watch an award winning singer with millions of best-selling disks to her name, stop, consider and retake is a reassurance that, maybe, it is OK for us all to be able to do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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