Learning Experiences!

[ursulav]

So the new novella has been out for three whole days now, and I have learned a few things, which I will inflict on you in case any of you have ever thought of self-publishing, or in case you already self-publish and want to point and laugh at someone else (or perhaps nod knowingly and reach for the bottle.)

Doing this right is hard.

I have burst

Comments

[madam_atom]

I am damn proud to be in a(nother) weird niche market. (Some of my others can't really be called "little", so I'll leave out that bit.)

Bought, downloaded, have about five other things queued up first--and that's just the ones I Really Want To Read Right Now Darnit--so I probably won't get to it for a while; but congrats and well done. And let me tell you, I've been a copyeditor in one type of publishing or another for about fifteen years now, and the longer I go the more it amazes me that ANYthing makes it out the door in even reasonable shape. So yay!

[thebluerose]

Ordered but not yet downloaded :) And YAY for the weird niche markets :)

I am patiently waiting for Regency Ninja to make an appearance, now that you have sucessfully self pub I am ever hopeful.......

[archangelbeth]

Yesssssssssss.

[laughingbadger]

Bought it a couple days ago through Amazon. Didn't notice typos, didn't have a chapter repeat so I must've gotten it after you fixed it. Loved it! Need to go put a review in. Yes, your style in this IS rather like Pratchett, which is a good thing because it's also clearly not a wanna-be either.

[maladaptive]

I've read books that've passed multiple eyeballs--as in, beta readers, editor, line editor--and still had typos. I'm not sure it's possible to catch them all in something so long. Though I agree, all the "typo-riddled" remarks make me wonder just what that means, since for some people it's "the author of Plaguespell spells plague a different way each time. In a book about plagues" and others might draw the line at "they used rein instead of reign! Get an editor!"

[rozasharn]

"Typo-riddled" means at least ten obvious typos per page. It is a fact that typos happen, even in the best-edited books; the frequency of typos you get when the author is not really literate, or when the manuscript was very badly converted from another format and nobody even tried to remove the machine-generated errors, is a whole different world.

[c_maxx]

I believe it was Patton who told his children that it takes no creativity to spell things the same arch time, the really difficult job is to come up with a new spelling for eaach occurrence...

[harvey_rrit]

I do sympathize.

I have the opposite problem. I produce slowly because I am a fanatical nitpicker and will not allow a story to be seen until it is RIGHT.

Then editors come in like waves of bombers and suggest errors that would make the story more compatible with a style manual. I just finished replying to just such an email from one about a story I wrote for a collection in Larry Niven's JumpShift series.

Honestly, someone who wants to write for publication might as well go have a bullseye tattooed on.