I’ve been fortunate in the reviews I’ve had on Amazon for Fit To Curve, far more positive than negative overall. But one failing struck everyone: a vast abundance of spelling mistakes and typos. One of the reviewers made an extraordinary offer, and then made good on it: she sent me a list of errata, somewhere between dozens and hundreds, depending on how you score recurrent violations, both for Fit To Curve and for Heart Attack. I entered the corrections and uploaded cleaned versions of both titles. All new purchasers (since a couple weeks ago) have got the improved text.
So: thank you, Sibyl. It was a wonderful gift.
Meanwhile, it is apparently becoming possible for Kindle readers to receive revised versions of previously purchased titles. It’s a new thing. I’m going to try to get that feature turned on for my books.
#1 by Sibyl Smirl on 23 April 17 - 2:07 pm
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You are very welcome! Just scratching my own itches.
But if you might want to do a James Richter deal, what I would like very much to have is perfect copies of all three, on paper, between hard covers, signed. Those wouldn’t have much future, though: at almost (if I live another month) 73, midway between my mother’s age at death and my father’s, and my daughter will be overwhelmed with all my books ;^)
And watch your e-mail: I just read the second edition of “Fit to Curve”, and found more imperfections, almost all pretty trivial: apostrophes, commas, omitted words, etc….only one misplaced homonym.
I have the second edition of “Heart Attack” in Kindle’s cloud–will be getting to that soon. IIRC, I found nothing wrong with the little sample of “Ghost Walk”, but I’d love to read the whole thing.
#2 by Bud on 25 April 17 - 8:40 pm
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Hi, Sibyl. Nice to hear from you. I have thought about getting some paper copies made, it’s not difficult (via a Kindle sister process). Just need to do some layout work (fonts, pagination, rear cover art, spine art). Wouldn’t be hardcover, but would be tangible.
Am I right in remembering that I sent you a section from “Ghost Walk” fresh from the editor? Or have you just seen the fragment posted here? I’m still shopping that title around, trying to find an agent & publisher. But I may send it to Kindle, to make it available, that just takes a few minutes (well, hours, probably, something always goes weird with the upload). The book I’m currently writing (same series) is tentatively called “Just Rewards.” Between them are two other books. I just finished my somewhat final edit of “Little Fishes;” “Drosselmeyer Chronicles” is first-draft completed. If you’d be interested, I could send a full copy of “Ghost Walk.” I’d love to get some feedback (just close friends & family so far).
Let me know. Don’t start counting yourself down at 73; I just hit 70, and have no plans to stop, 20 years older than either father or grandfather got to.
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