I got my first review for my book up at Kindle, 'Heroes of Justice.' It was mostly positive with the reviewer giving me four stars. Apparently despite all the people who have looked it over, mistakes have still persisted. That's annoying since I think at times I can recite the whole book given how many times I've gone over it.
On a humorous note, the review claims to have bought it accidentally because of Amazon's 'One-Click' Button.
However, one review is better than no review!
Hugs
Grover
Comments
HOJ...
Great Grover! I liked your HOJ story line very much myself. As you said though I've reread stories that I'd read numerous times and still pick up on some little something that I'd missed in all the times I'd read the story before. *sigh* It's very very hard to get every little nitpicking mistake out of any story.
Tell me about it!
I want to provide a quality product, but it is not easy! At least four different people have looked over HOJ and it's about as 'clean' as I can make it. To have mistakes still be noticable enough to comment on, is annoying.
Hugs
Grover
dont beat yourself up
over it, even "commercial" product has issues, sometimes worse than i have seen here. if someone has that big an issue, from a self published book, then they have OTHER issues all their own, trust me.
I have been an avid reader since 1975-ish, so i have seen lots of errors. part of the problem with self-proofing, or even someone you know is they know the story, so in their minds it flows and sometimes they dont catch something as the mind just "glosses" over it so as NOT to spoil the symmetry of the story. its like the study they did, take a paragraph, and each word scramble the letters, in they left the first and last letter the same and on this one it had higher comprehension than totally scrambled, but the mind is an amazing instrument, it can do a lot.
HUGS
Terri
Teresa L.
Well the problem is ...
.... you did not use the same editors who did OTH :)
Edit: Meant as a reply to Grover.
Errors
I would not worry so much about printing errors. I have books by Clive Cussler, Douglas Reeman and other well-established author's on my Kindle and I find plenty of printing errors in their books as well :)
I bought an ebook and there
I bought an ebook and there were more errors in it than in the dead tree edition.
You're In Very Illustrious Company
I once bought a copy of Joachim Fest's Hitler, one of the most famous biographies ever written. One event was described as happening on February 30th. How's that for a typo!
My edition of The Oxford History Of Britain has Agricola being recalled to Rome in 84 or 84.
I own a copy of AJP Taylor's Illustrated History Of The First World War which refers to Belgian refugees being settled in a 'munitions town of their own in Northumberland'. The 'town' was on the outskirts of Birtley, County Durham.
So I wouldn't feel too bad if I were you.
Well congratulations anyway.
You're definitely an author I'd enjoy seeing in print. Though I think that given your nice touch with heroes comics wouldn't be a far fetched option either.
*Great Big Hugs*
Bailey Summers