Armed with impossibly powerful magic and a gang of demon toughs, the summoner has snared Harker in a deadly trap. Nothing is ever easy, and being new in town has left Harker with few allies. However, with help from a Fortune-Teller named Clover and a self-described "Kitchen Witch" named Momma Dee, Harker fights back.
To prevail, Harker must walk unprepared into a pit of demons and black magic – and come out alive on the other side.
My editing process for this book was all about getting to know the characters and the world better. Although I plan my stories, I always leave lots of leeway for the characters to surprise me, which they inevitably do. The more I write, the more I discover who the characters are, what they want, and who they want to become.
In Ariella's Escape, I added more color to the dialogue, little touches that really bring out characters' personalities. For instance, in the scene where the heroes take shelter in a roadside inn, the innkeeper is a little bit snarky with the guards who are looking for the fugitives, but he's very snarky and even cheeky in the final edit.
The same thing happened with the main characters. Some of their traits that had not been very noticeable turned out to be absolutely crucial to the story and to the central romantic relationship.
By the time I finished the first draft I realized just how disillusioned Ariella was with life and how Demetrius, on the contrary, was always trying to stay optimistic despite everything he had been through as a slave. I went back and added those little touches that would bring out their perspectives even more as well as the particular traits of this fantasy world, their beliefs in their gods and what that said about the characters.
Demetrius didn't agree, despite everything he had endured. There had always been such a strong hope in his heart for freedom, and he had finally found it. But he did not want to pry, just as she had not pried into his secrets.
However, he hated the thought of such a young woman, so kind and noble, believing that life was essentially misfortune.
I'm Josh Stricklin, which I have no doubt has already been stated somewhere in this post. I'm an author from Mississippi. I have a few books, and now I've taken my skills to the Internet. I have been asked to talk to the masses about my editing process. I know different has their very own, super-special way of making it work. Hey, I have done it differently every time.
I have two published books now, and while writing each of them I was in different places in my life. For my newest book, The King of Evil, a lot of the editing I did was the typical run-of-the-mill corrections, along with a lot of last-minute fact checking. The story was about voodoo, and I didn't know much at all about it before I started writing. I spent a lot of time going back and making sure nothing was wonky with my information—other than the fictionalized parts I took special liberties with obviously.
For Those Who Are Left though, I was working on my first book. I didn't know how to do it, and I was coming off a very serious injury that I have talked about ad nauseam in blogs and my website (thegreenroses.com).
I didn't know how to edit. I just read and reread a bunch of times. That, of course, was a fun one to go back through. For a majority of the writing I was on painkillers, and my mind was swimming fairly often.
I sort of flailed around a lot during the editing process, but as for the story, I have found a pretty efficient way to edit.After I finish the initial run through. I take notes for all the major plot points and keep them by me as I go through the story again, checking for anything that my contradict something that comes up later in the book. For the book I'm working on now, that is especially important, because the narrative is told from multiple points of view. I know once I finish, I'll be making comments about when each character discovers specific information and how a certain event changes each character. Keeping the notes on the story as I go through has been the best way for me to keep the story in order as I go. That's something I'd suggest to people working on a book. Of course people have something that'll work better for their individual books. This method has helped me a lot, and because I feel like the story is the most important part, I would tell people to at least give it a shot.
Josh Stricklin is an American author and musician with degrees in English literature and advertising from the University of Southern Mississippi. His first novel, Those Who Are Left, made its debut in 2015. The terrifying follow up, The King of Evil, is available from Silver Leaf Books. He's currently hard at work finishing his first series…or more likely reading comic books and wearing a Seahawks jersey.
I'm hosting a guest post today by Phil Williams, author of "Against the Grain". Phil talks about the editing process today.
Each of my manuscripts are edited seven times. After the outline and first draft, I read my manuscript out loud to my wife, Denise. This allows me to catch awkward phrases and dialogue. Denise often chimes in with comments about characterization and grammar. I love to make her laugh, and I try not to be too deflated when she doesn't. Her instant reactions give me invaluable feedback as to where I'm succeeding, and where I'm failing. Before I send it to my editors, I do one more read through on my own. My goal at this stage is to send them the best manuscript possible.
My editors: Fred Johnson, Carolyn Smailes, Gary Smailes, and Denise Barker of Bubblecow work their magic with a detailed structural edit. I receive feedback on pacing, plot, characterization, dialogue, descriptions, and a chapter by chapter summary. They do a fantastic job of pinpointing any problems, and offsetting that with positive feedback.
When Bubblecow returns my manuscript, it's marked up with corrections and comments. I spend a few weeks fixing any problems, making corrections, and rewriting where necessary. I take my editor's feedback seriously. I try to keep my ego in check, and follow their advice. After the initial edit and rewrites, I do another read aloud, and send it back to my editors for a proofread.
During the proofread, the manuscript is edited line-by-line for grammar, spelling, and sentence fluency. Again, I receive a marked-up manuscript that I have to read through and make corrections. At this point, I read through one final time, and the manuscript is ready for my formatter and cover artist. The entire process takes about five months.
Anyone with an internet connection can publish these days, giving all authors the opportunity to find an audience. I think it's fair that readers decide the value of a book, not the publishers. A few years ago, indie publishing was synonymous with poor quality, but that's changing. As a reader, I now have a tough time distinguishing between indie and traditionally published books. In my opinion, the main reason for the increase in quality is the help of an editor. With each novel or nonfiction book, I'm striving to improve as an author and a storyteller. A professional edit is crucial to the quality of my work and the development of my craft.
Phil M. Williams is an author, activist, blogger, and consultant. He lives in Central Pennsylvania with his wife, Denise, where he writes and tends his permaculture farm. He is the author of Fire the Landscaper, Against the Grain, Stone Lake, and co-author of Farmer Phil's Permaculture. His new releases can be read for free at PhilWBooks.com.


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Game #81: Blackburning and Cursing
By Dani Baker-Gillman@h00nterDani Jul 1, 2017, 4:37pm PDT
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The first half of the year was quite the mixed bag. The team was mired by "representative product" veterans who lacked the punch and the fire for the A's to compete for most of it, resulting in the A's rocketing down to the bottom of the American League standings and leading all of baseball in errors and squandering winnable ballgames. It was a team that could instill hope in the hearts of fans while playing at home, but withered like a water-starved daisy playing on the road. But in recent weeks, as spring turned to summer, the A's have undergone significant changes, calling up their most promising prospects and cultivating a new team identity. They have become more fundamentally sound on defense and have more depth and variation from the top of the lineup to the bottom.
Not that anyone could tell from these last two games.
If he was feeling any jitters during the first start of his big league career, it didn't show, as Paul Blackburn was impeccable in his big league debut. With his low 90's fastball, curveball, and changeup arsenal, Blackburn wasn't going to succeed purely on his innate talent, as he would need deception and execution on his side. And for the entirety of Blackburn's first chance in the show, he did nothing but deceive and execute. The Braves managed all of five baserunners, three on hits and two on walks/HBPs, one unearned run, and struck out four times in six innings against the righty, and all the contact the Braves made was fairly weak. The lone extra base hit the Braves hit was cut off in the outfield well before the ball reached the warning track, and every batter for Atlanta rolled over on several of Blackburn's offerings.
Blackburn was calm and collected throughout his entire start, but was able to buckle down even further all but one time the Braves had ducks on the pond. Each of his four strikeouts came with a runner on base, and the Braves were never able to string together multiple hits in any inning. Blackburn's only free passes occurred in the first inning, when he hit one batter and walked Matt Kemp on four pitches, but sandwiched those subpar at-bats with weak ground balls and a strikeout to ensure the Braves never really threatened to score. The one run that did cross the plate for Atlanta only reached base on a rather inexcusable error from Franklin Barreto at shortstop, on a play wherein the Braves' catcher hit a routine ground ball to the top prospect and gave Barreto plenty of time to make the play, but the young infielder's throw nearly ended up in the first base dugout. If one were to nitpick, Paul Blackburn wasn't that efficient with his pitches, as he was up and over eighty pitches in the fifth and was encroaching upon one hundred pitches by the time he got the third out in the sixth, but considering the last-minuteness of his callup and considering the context of Blackburn's start, it would be hard to ask for any more
The A's offense was almost as anemic as it was last night for the first three innings of this game against R.A. Dickey of the Braves. The A's had a baserunner in each of the first three frames, but a mix of incompetence and poor sequencing prevented any of those runners from advancing. Further incompetence and poor sequencing stagnated an A's rally in the fourth inning. After Khris Davis reached on a walk following a strong at bat and Yonder Alonso hit a bloop single that landed just between Atlanta's left fielder and shortstop, Ryon Healy hit his second single of the day on a ground ball up the middle to easily score Davis, and tie the game at one apiece. Matt Olson continued his hot streak at the plate and notched a single of his own to load up the bases, but Josh Phegley was quickly on the ropes after falling behind 0-2 and wound up beating the ball into the ground for an easy double play to end the inning. In the following inning, the A's left runners on the corners when the third out was recorded.
Barreto's defense at shortstop proved costly for the A's today. In addition to his throwing error that eventually paved the way for the Braves' first run in the second inning, in the seventh inning, with Doolittle freshly in the game in relief of Blackburn, Barreto made an unofficial error. On a ball that was popped up between short and left, Barreto was ranging out and Matt Joyce was breaking in, both athletes calling for the ball. While Joyce was late in charging for the shallow fly ball, the outfielder does take precedence over the infielder on a play like this, but Barreto didn't hear or notice the sprinting Joyce and the two players collided right as the ball hit the leather of Barreto's glove, causing the ball to fall harmlessly between them (thankfully both players were A-OK). The batted ball went as a single, but semantics don't change the fact that it was poor A's defense that put the runner on base, and the gifted baserunner once again crossed the plate after Dansby Swanson doubled on a line drive into the left field corner to give the Braves a late 2-1 lead. Another run in the eighth inning, off of Ryan Madson, made it 3-1. Given how Paul Blackburn had pitched and the various wasted opportunities at the plate for Oakland, that the A's were trailing was frustrating.
Then, in the bottom of the eighth, Jed Lowrie led off the inning with a superb at bat that ended in a walk after eight pitches. Khris Davis then hit the following pitch, a chest-high 98-MPH heater right down the heart of the zone from reliever Arodys Vizcaino, very high and deep to center field for a game tying two-run home run. Hope, for but a moment, was restored.
Hope is a mistake.
Santiago Casilla came into the tie game in the ninth and looked impressive, but was once again let down by Barreto's defense at shortstop. A strike out to start the inning was followed by a ground ball to shortstop that was bobbled by Barreto that allowed the batter, Danny Santana, to reach first. Santana stole second (his third stolen bag of the game), and then scored on Dansby Swanson's second consecutive run scoring double into the left field corner. The Braves once again had the lead, 4-3, going into the bottom of the ninth.
Franklin Barreto, looking for some redemption leading off the ninth inning, struck out swinging for the first out of the frame. Two more quick outs followed and the game was over. The A's lost a winnable baseball game, much like the team did throughout much of the first half of this season, which is now officially behind them.
Paul Blackburn deserved better in his first career start, and the A's lose the second straight game to start their six game home stand. They will try to salvage the final game of this series tomorrow behind Sean Manaea.
Game #81: Athletics vs Braves
Game Thread #81: Athletics vs Braves

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For some, it can be a daunting feeling when it becomes time to start the mortgage process. There are many terms that can be used that wouldn't be common to the average person. Below is a list of these terms that one might encounter when going through the mortgage process.
Financial Encumbrance: This is simply a claim against a property by someone who is not the rightful owner of the property. This is like a mortgage note, or a lien of another type (taxes, mechanics/contractors lien, judgments, etc.). This claim gives them interest in your property in exchange for repayment of a debt. Once satisfied, the lien is removed.
Reconvey: This can be seen when the bank grants (grantor) the title of the property free and clear to the homeowner (grantee) by returning the deed.
Easement: This is simply a right-of-way to property, such as utility lines or a sidewalk.
Restrictions: Can be public or private, and are very common with Homeowners Associations with condos or planned unit developments (PUD's).
Encroachment: This could be a fence or tree branches encroaching on to ones property.
Third Party: Someone who is not directly involved in the interaction or relationship with the buyer or seller. This can be any of the following: inspector, appraiser, title company (escrow agent) attorney closing agent, etc.
Constructive notice of title: This is the legal presumption that anything recorded in the public record can be known by anyone who wants to know it. These recorded financial items include, but are not limited to, mortgage, sale of property, taxes, subordinations of a mortgage, easements, lot description, date built, etc. This information can be found on your local property appraiser website.
Amortization: The movement of the loan balance (reduction of) by making monthly payments. Full amortization means that the loan will mature when the balance is $0.00; while partial amortization means that the loan will mature when the loan balance is greater than $0.00. This results in a final lump sum balance payment of principal called a balloon payment. Negative amortization means that the loan balance is moving upward (increasing); while regular amortization means that the loan balance is moving downward (decreasing). Most loans today have a regular amortization schedule that fully amortizes. These are the least risky loans to the consumer.
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my rental property. I had not heard back from Wells Fargo until today.
I lived in the property at onee tiome and now am an "accidental" landlord.
but Wells Fargo explained that wouldn't be considered in mmy LTV with the refi.
up in 5 years. What are my options since I do not live within the properry anymore (it can bbe bazcked my Freddie Mac)?
I am so frustrated bbc I fall from thhe category you wrote about from the Wells Fargo section, Freddie Mac backed, rental property.
Can I use one more loan provider?