Editors nightmare

I haven't posted for a while as I have waited for feedback on the book.
The critics have spoken and the thing needs a LOT of work.
Too wordy, weighty and some passages meander needlessly.
There were some good words as well but as a famous crime writer said "your worst enemy is praise"

I will have to go over it again and cut....cut....cut.
One story looks like it will have to go to the recycling bin for now and may appear at a later date.
Lucky I wrote those other stories recently.
The Blue Valentine CD is taking up all of my time at present with mixing/marketing and it looks like we have Cletis Carr on board to handle Figtree Words and Music marketing/publicity which can only be a good thing.
The book has been shunted to the back of the bus for now, though the printers are ready to go at a moments notice.
Speaking of writing I woke at 3.00am last night, the rain softly falling and the wind creating ghostly noises through the big old house I live in, and wrote 2 new songs.
I even had a dream about 1 of the songs after I went back to sleep involving a Goth girl, a celtic manuscript and a haunting gaelic funereal version of Dear Prudence by the Beatles [all very weird.......who'd want a mind like mine]
One of the songs even has a character already [Maddy Henry], is in B#/C and is 3/4. All the parts are there including an Irish Flute. I better get the guitar and mandolin out this morning