e-book adventures, and Andrea K. Host

[sartorias]

The authoress has bestowed wonderful pains upon its composition [Shirley], and she has been rewarded accordingly. It has been slowly written, carefully digested, touched and retouched, reviewed and revised, corrected in manuscript and in proof, and in this respect it is a pattern to our modern novelists, who gives their scribblings to the press

Comments

[whswhs]

If I want to type Höst in livejournal, I type capital H, option-u, o, s, t. If you have a Windows system I think it would be alt-u for the diaresis. It looks like it came out okay to me; are you seeing the two dots above the o?

[estara]

I see them. I'm so lucky typing from a German keyboard in that regard, heh.

[cmcmck]

I just switch to my German, French, Italian or Icelandic (I use it for Old English/Old Norse) font sets as required. I can even do UK or US English should the mood be upon me :o)

[cmcmck]

I suspect that maturity comes when we can read what we don't like, or what makes us take pains to read.

I don't condemn self publication- Twain and Conrad started out that way after all!

What I do condemn is sloppiness and lazy thinking, but then I'm one of those who definitely does NOT have a novel in her nor any interest in producing one and no intention of writing an autobiography, even though some say I should. :o)

[sksperry]

The best editors are able to see what the writer can't always, due to living inside the story; the danger of turning to other writers for editing is that they might assume they are editing but in fact they are trying to make the story theirs.

My thoughts exactly.

[estara]

Yup, and then there's the fact that when I started into ebooks in 2009 there were quite a few ebooks by traditional publishers (obviously still figuring things out) with loads of scanning errors or layout screw-ups.

These things are fortunately changing more and more - and the self-publishers with professional pride (BVC, Courtney Milan, Ilona Andrews, Moriah Jovan, Andrea Höst, to name just a few) endeavour to deliver a professional product to the reader.

To be honest, apart from grammar mistakes I don't really see pacing issues, etc. when the characters and story grab me. It's a film happening in my head and I only come up at the end of the book.

[ethelmay]

Ahem. That would be "fare-thee-well." Muphry's law and all that :-)