Jo Ann Ferguson: Revision Ramifications

You’ve woven your story tightly. Now you need to revise it – either for yourself or for an editor/agent. What pitfalls do you need to avoid? How do you stay excited about the manuscript when you have to go through it yet again? How do you keep one small change from rippling out and changing your whole story…or should you go with the flow? Let’s talk about the good, the bad, and the really annoying aspects of revising a completed ms.

Award-winning author Jo Ann Ferguson has a split writing personality. As Jo Ann Ferguson, she launched the Regency line at ImaJinn as well as being the author of best-selling historicals. J.A. Ferguson writes paranormals for ImaJinn. Jocelyn Kelley’s next title is Time Raiders: The Greek Lover from Harlequin Nocturne and will be released in July 2011. Jo Ann Brown writes for Guideposts Books (her second title in the Patchwork Mysteries series, Secret in the Stitches, was be released March 2011). Her 80+ titles are also published by Tudor, Ballantine, Zebra, Harper, Penguin, Warner, and Thorndike. The books have been translated into almost a dozen languages and sold on every continent except Antarctica.