Rose Haldane, journalist and identity detective, reunites the people lost through adoption. The stories you don’t see on television shows. The difficult cases. The people who cannot be found, who are thought lost forever. And each new challenge makes Rose re-live her own adoption story, each birth mother and father, adopted child, and adoptive parent she talks to, reminds her of her own birth mother Kate. Each book in the ‘Identity Detective’ series considers the viewpoint of one person trapped in this horrible dilemma. In the first book of the series, Ignoring Gravity, it is Rose’s experience we follow as an adult discovering she was adopted as a baby. Connectedness is the story of a birth mother, her hopes and anxieties, her guilt and fear, and her longing to see her baby again. Sweet Joy, the third novel, will tell the story of a foundling, a baby abandoned, and how the now elderly woman is desperate to know her story before it is too late. Who is Rose Haldane? Watch the Series Trailer…
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When re-drafting, print the m/s and read it on the page. Write your corrections in coloured pen so they are easy to spot, and tick them once you’ve made the correction. I date things too, but that’s just my journalistic background showing. Once I’ve corrected everything on a page, I draw a line across it.
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Sandra, I’d love to learn more about this process if you’re willing to share. Do you check every word of the draft against your submitted copy?
I guess you’d have to. Did you find lots of errors? The red pen and tick-off strategy sounds effective.
Yes, Shari, every word, with multiple re-reads. This is my proofreading process, any re-writing and re-structuring will already have been done. The m/s is also read by my writing group and one other reader, as fresh eyes always see something I don’t – I then make the corrections on my master file.
When I am happy the manuscript is polished, I then send it to my professional copy-editor at Fiction Feedback for another copy-edit. Click here to read more about that process http://wp.me/p5gEM4-12P
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