Shimrit Hanes, Author

The count-down has begun, as Adrielle and I go through the proof copies one more time, with a fine-tooth comb, weeding out any errors I missed in past edits. This book finishes the story of the Stowaways, carrying them…

Shalom, shalom!

Life is good! More than good, great! But sometimes even great things can impede the reaching of our goals in a timely manner. I just spent a wonderful two weeks with my eldest daughter's family. This encompassed my…

Shalom Y'all from warm sunny Florida! 

I’m on the finishing stretch of book III of my series, Flight of the EsCargo. I’m excited to get the finish product published and into your hands. I’ve been working on the cover alongside…

Well, it had to happen sometime. We all got covid. Not my idea of fun at all, however we survived and got over it fairly quickly by doing all the things the best doctors tell us all to do (the…

Wow! My new book has been late twice now as I continue editing. Every time I read through I find more mistakes, Oy! The editing process can be tedious, but it's very necessary. I'm reading it aloud to one of…

All the final editing is finished. The cover is done. The inside of the book is formatted (Chapter numbers and titles added, paragraph indents set, Fonts chosen, scene breaks divided with a decorative line etc.). There's much work to be…

The manuscript for book two, ‘Flight of the EsCargo’ is finished!

I’m now working hard editing it. I decided to do the book in two parts, rather than have it as long as book one ‘The Dreamers’ (400+ pages!) and…

Book one was so much fun, and so fulfilling to me. It was the book that launched an author! Now I'm working on book two of the Terra Colony Project series, and having as much fun with this one as…