Will the typos ever end?!?!? I can't believe I open up book three and still find errors and typos! Sure, I am not really designed for consistency but seriously, you would think I could make up my mind on a few things! I don't know if I will ever have an error free book and I think I am reaching that place of saying to hell with it, if you are too anal to get past the typos than too bad!
It has been an interesting journey concerning this book. I have always believed that there is a reason things happen the way they do. Sometimes those reasons are clear, and sometimes they are not but always in hind sight you can look back and go, ahh, that is why that was like that. If I had published the book at this time, I would have done it before I met this person and things have gone very different. What appears sometimes to be a bad thing, can turn out to be a good thing indeed. And that seems to be the way things have gone with my first book. I have been on a fence in so many ways about so many things related to being a POD writer. Do I go with these people, or do I go with those or do I go with both? I have been swinging back and forth as I waited for my proofer who seemed to be taking a very long time. Then I come to find out when I get the third proof back, that I had accidentally not uploaded to PDF the correct version thanks to Indesign and how confusing it can be! In the end it was all good because in the meantime Createspace has been merged into Kindle and they are getting the bugs worked out as I do the same thing with the final stage of my last proof. Not a bad thing! And I also bumped into someone who has strongly advised me to re-examine my using Ingram Sparks to do the book. So all and all, the re-doing of edits is not a bad thing since it also means I am finalizing who I want to do my printing with. When you think about it, isn't that how life is? If you are not sure of something you put off making a decision or going somewhere, etc and really it is your little voice that is putting you off. So the day there is a major car pile up on the highway you miss because you forgot your coffee and went back for it, or you put off making a major purchase somewhere and it is just as well because they would have taken your money before going bankrupt. I have been delaying and mulling over many things including why I am doing this blog (which is why I haven't!) and other things in my life as I transition from single parent to empty nester examining all my options and what direction I want to go with my life at this time. One thing that becomes resounding clear, my love of writing is always at the top of my list.....
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