Hello my friends and the occasional relative! Second October sale of ebook version of The Killer and The Dead starts later this week! Check it out! I have begun to assemble my collage of pieces that will become The Red Palace this week. Why, because I wrote a section that ended with the single biggest …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! First off, the first of two October sales of The Killer and The Dead starts tomorrow! (UK and US) 1st to 8th of October. Start off the spooky season with a serial killer facing down the undead and his own familial dysfunction! You know you want to. I …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I did say I’d see you next week, but I didn’t say which day! I continue to be distracted by life. House selling is very consuming: you move out of your own home in advance, denude it of character so visitors can impress their personalities upon it, see …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Okay, so the copy edit is complete. One more hill climbed, another mountain ahead. I have started the read aloud proofing pass, and am 5.5 to 7% of the way through that, depending on criteria chosen. No graphical representation employed. So far I have added and removed equal …
Continue reading Reading aloud to the Demon of Perfectionism
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! 97% of copy edit complete. Two things this week. One, as of today both my books are on sale in the UK and USA, in the ebook edition anyway. Continue your recovery from St. Patrick’s day overindulgence by sitting down with a good book. That’s an order, soldier! …
Continue reading Halo: Mystery Box Edition (And my books are on Sale – Buy them!)
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Almost there! I am 91.6% or 93.2% of the way through the copy edit, depending on criteria used. Hopefully next weekend it will be done, and on to proofing. This week I discovered I used word in an unusual fashion. I used ‘bulled’ as a verb, to indicate …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! How many times shall I read thee? Let me count the ways. Again. Minor advice column for writers this week. Lessons learned from my own repeated experience as a fellow traveller in the writing trenches. Copy editing progress continues. Depending on how I measure it I am …
Hello my friends and occasional relative. I submit a new rant, which, upon reflection, I possibly should have written in meter. But I didn't, because how easy would it be to train an AI tool to do that? Ahem. Tap tap tap. In my last outing I went straight to the end of the road, …
Not the catchiest title, I admit. But I’m here to share how a royal screw up of mine added a gloriously horrific typo to my book AFTER it had been laboriously proofread and judged error free. And I did it as part of the process, not on a whim. Well, okay, there were whims involved, …
Continue reading What happens when you deviate from the process: Collector’s edition edition.
This is an update. After losing/significantly depleting my GAF as previously described, I decided to do my usual (i.e. done once before) final step of reading my book out loud to myself as a way to interrogate each sentence and catch egregious typos. This is now done. Yay. I fixed some sentences here and there, …
Continue reading The Writing Life: The Power of the Spoken Word
Roderick T. Macdonald 