Final Editing Notes

Monday, July 9, 2012

Final Editing Notes

Hi there,
it's Stefan. Just yesterday I received the final 50 pages with edits. By next Sunday, July 15th, the book will be on Amazon and available for the kindle. What a journey this has been and still is (and probably will be for a while). My friend, sister-in-law and editor, Jacky Dooley, has done an amazing job - and not only because she saved most of my characters from starvation. She also saved my readers from words like 'wolfes', way too many 'after a while's, and lots of Yoda talk ("You might not remember. Too short was your glance at her").

She asked pertinent questions such as, "What does insanity smell like?" or "How can you hit the surface of a hole?". There is even a part of a haiku in her editing notes. "Water gushes. Air blows." And she is responsible for my favorite line and one that will echo trough time and hopefully into the hearts of many readers: "May the Lioness walk beside you on your journey, and give you strength and hope and comfort. Always."

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About This Blog

Dear reader,

welcome to "The Three Feathers". If you have read the book, this blog has lots of additional entries, mostly written by the characters of the story. The blog also gives insights into how the story of "The Three Feathers" came about and what is to come.

This is Joshua's blog. I serve as the moderator and contributor of some of the behind-the-scenes stuff like publishing schedule, etc. If this is your first time to the site, please feel free to look around and explore. Some of the entries have spoilers in them. If they do, it will say 'spoiler alert' in the header.

Enjoy,

Stefan

P.S. If you want to contact me, just email me at stefanbolz@yahoo.com.

About Myself (Joshua)

Thanks for reading my blog. I was thinking of late that maybe there are others like me who are on a similar journey than I was during the adventure of "The Three Feathers". Not quite the same of course but following their dream-whatever that may be but with the same hopes and fears and limitations I had to surpass in order to find what I was looking for. I didn't really think about it much until I got a visitor, a young man who one day came through the beacon and looked for me. And eventually he found me. Reluctantly at first I began to tell him my story and he, very faithfully, wrote it down. It came out pretty accurately. While I told him about my adventure I re-experienced some of the horrifying encounters of it. But I also had the chance to re-visit some of the most beautiful moments of my life. They had, in one way or the other, to do with the friends I made during the journey. Be it Alda, the turtle, Broga the mighty peeper frog, Ayres the eagle, Dragon-of-the-Stone with the most powerful dreams imaginable; and, of course, my dear friends Wind, Krieg and Grey, dearest of all. I miss you so much sometimes but I know that whatever distance and time will pass, we will never be apart, like true friends are.

Thank you all so much,

Joshua

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