The Word is Out
Antler Dust - Four Years Later
Posted in Author Blog by Mark Stevens on June 1, 2011
Four years ago, in March, “Antler Dust” came out and I was fortunate to receive some good reviews. One thing I didn’t know then—something I didn’t really know—was that a book has a life. Every book has a life. Four years later, “Antler Dust” just drew a nice review by Jim Ament, a guy I met recently and who clearly has done a lot of reading. Check it out…look under “Recent Posts” at http://www.jamesrament.com/
“He also knows how to build tension and write a darn good mystery,” wrote Ament. (I’ll take it.)
But here’s the secret.
Don’t know if this is a dirty little secret or just a fact of life, but I’m amazed, after writing the sequel, that when I look back at “Antler Dust,” I’m seeing some clunky spots in the writing. Just sentences and paragraphs and images that could have been executed at a higher level.
They need work.
And the People’s Press folks, who are bringing out a paperback version of “Antler Dust,” are giving me the chance to clean it up. It will be the same story. It is the same story. That can’t change—the basic plot and the characters, all in place. But it’s the quality of the glue that ties it all together. Certain scenes, reading them now, are simply not as sharp and clear as they could have been. It’s true. It just….could have…been better.
Maybe no book is ever perfect.
Maybe every piece of writing is a work in progress.
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