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When I posted in February, I'd just sent my MS off to my editor. She came back to me in March with only six pages of notes (when I used her for my debut it was fifteen pages so I consider this progress)! Overall she was happy and we clarified a few issues over a phone call. I started to work on the corrections but as I was working through, I noticed a few odd mistakes that I thought I'd corrected. If you remember from last time, I got Word to read out my MS so I heard the changes I needed to make. Had I forgotten to change them? I then got to a bit where I knew I'd added more detail. It wasn't there. Then it dawned on me. I hadn't sent my final draft. In a hurry to get everything done before going away, I'd send an earlier revision. For a day, it was the end of the world. Complete meltdown. Next day, a friend told me about the Compare option on Word. I tried it but there were too many changes for me to look at. I did my best to remember which passages I'd ch...

 Well, I say March update - really it's all about February as March has only just started.  My beta reader gave me a thumbs up for DI Bernie Noel 4 which was a huge relief. The last thing I had to do before sending it to my editor was a final read through. I did this using the Read function on Word. A fairly nice voice read out my MS to me and it was so helpful. I 'heard' the mistakes which were often small and I probably would have missed them if I'd just been reading normally. My plan was take my time with this over half-term but a couple of members of my family had other ideas.  I'm not very good with spontaneity but my husband and youngest made last minute plans to visit the Netherlands and Belgium and expected me to go to! I was still determined to finish the final read through and managed to do it just in time. It was a huge relief to send my MS off and now I'm waiting for the verdict! We had a good time away and my youngest can add the Netherlands and Bel...