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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September
« Last post by kyrathaba on July 20, 2013, 04:11 PM »
You know, this thread has been read 19K+ times. If everyone who's reading this would visit my FB author page (see sig) and click "Like", that would help a lot to create buzz ("word of mouse...")
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September
« Last post by kyrathaba on July 20, 2013, 04:07 PM »
Impressive - how did you manage that?


I pitched the book to them, and asked if they'd be willing to review it and blurb it if they like it.

I also pitched it to some more well-known authors, and here's what they responded:

Raymond E. Feist: "I stopped blurbs years ago. Too many people asking and not enough time to read them all."

William Shunn: "Sorry, I just don't have time."

Scott Sigler: "Nope, can't do that, I'm afraid. But rock on."

Neil Gaiman: "I'm afraid not."

John Scalzi: "No."

Meh, can't win them all.

I never heard back from my Tweets to Will Wheaton, Cory Doctorow, Elizabeth Bear, Anne Rice, George R. R. Martin, Diane Duane, Stephen King or Dean Koontz. I'm sure they're busy.
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September
« Last post by kyrathaba on July 20, 2013, 01:59 PM »
Okay, I've got three previously published authors reading the book (and maybe a 4th: see below). If they like it, they'll offer a blurb for me to insert at the beginning of the book.

The authors are:

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September
« Last post by kyrathaba on July 20, 2013, 11:00 AM »
Perry and 4wd have been hard at work: I've got the MS locked-in from Prologue through end of Chapter 11. Great job, guys! Will await your feedback on further chapters.
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September
« Last post by kyrathaba on July 19, 2013, 11:01 PM »
For those following this thread,  I emailed Perry and 4wd tonight and outlined our timetable for getting through with final edits by deadline.  In brief, I'm asking them to consider the Prologue through Chapter 8 done, and to concentrate on the remaining chapters with an eye out just for these things: tautologies, logic errors, typos, and other grammatical errors.

Then, lf we get the book drudged for those bottom-feeders, we can go back and leisurely tweak phrasing, and do other polishing.  The goal for right now, however, is to rid the book of any remaining outright errors prior to my deadline.
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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for July 9, 2013 - Codename: Summer Slowdown
« Last post by kyrathaba on July 19, 2013, 06:35 PM »
Thanks for the newsletter,  mouser!
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Living Room / Re: Secure Cloud backup -e.g., Digital Lifeboat - what alternatives are there?
« Last post by kyrathaba on July 19, 2013, 06:32 PM »
I regularly backup projects to Pogo Cloud, adrive (free 50 GB) and box.net (my personal fave)
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September
« Last post by kyrathaba on July 19, 2013, 05:24 PM »
Guys, I got Prologue through Ch 8 comments actioned.

In my MS:

(a) GSAR to ensure capitalization of "Administrator"
(b) GSAR to ensure hyphenation of "auto-guns"

Backups in 4 local drives and 3 online locations.


Samples downloaded

From DC hosting: 217
From Scribd: 39 reads, 50 followers
From Issuu: 7 reads, 438 impressions, 19 Like
Facebook author Fan Page: 80 Likes


Three review sites and one author friend are reviewing for "overall effect" (is this an enjoyable read?)

bookBuzzData.jpg
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September
« Last post by kyrathaba on July 19, 2013, 12:10 PM »
She has decided you're going on holiday on the 11th.

That's fairly accurate, 4wd. Gives us, what, 20+ days?

4wd, I've listed Perry as Contributor in the e-book metadata. Would like to list you as well, if you're in agreement. If you want me to do this, email me your first and last name.

I've been in one of the family tobacco patches pulling weeds this morning. Whew! Hard on a 41 year old who's 30 lbs overweight!

Glad to be back to my PC ;)
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September
« Last post by kyrathaba on July 18, 2013, 11:02 PM »
Alert: my wife has set a deadline of August 10th for submitting book to Smashwords  :o
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September
« Last post by kyrathaba on July 18, 2013, 10:59 PM »
Samples downloaded

From DC hosting: 216
From Scribd: 39 reads, 50 followers
From Issuu: 7 reads, 438 impressions, 19 Like
Facebook author Fan Page: 79 Likes
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September
« Last post by kyrathaba on July 18, 2013, 10:56 AM »
Up to 71 Likes on my author page (see sig) from 54 last week. Trying to build awareness/buzz. So far, 68 ppl have "said" they're gonna buy the novel. Then there are the genre-feeders who buy anything new in a particular genre. Submitted a request (not actual ebook) to two review sites today. One is offering me to guest blog about the experience we've all had collaborating!
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September
« Last post by kyrathaba on July 18, 2013, 10:40 AM »
Yes, I'm using the Chicago Manual of Style (online)
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September
« Last post by kyrathaba on July 18, 2013, 09:42 AM »
I'm using the Smashwords style guide. Although ppl's e-readers can generally override actual default font, I'm using Arial 12-pt.
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September
« Last post by kyrathaba on July 18, 2013, 09:41 AM »
The editor, Jutoh, has templates for Styles which use CSS.
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September
« Last post by kyrathaba on July 18, 2013, 08:27 AM »
Beta-readers, we've identified hyphenation used often where it shouldn't be, sometimes instead there should be a double word, or two separate words. I will also be going through and correcting the misuse of the word 'and' as in "one hundred and thirty". Also, numbers between 21-99 should be hyphenated unless evenly divisible by ten. Will fix.
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September
« Last post by kyrathaba on July 18, 2013, 07:39 AM »
Beta-readers, there is a misplaced passage in Ch 21 beginning "Mephord and Jaimie entered the Sewage Treatment Cavern." and ending "Then, “Good shooting, Jaimie.” It shouldn't occur until Ch 22 and has been removed from Ch 21 in the manuscript.
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September
« Last post by kyrathaba on July 17, 2013, 11:20 PM »
Will check it on desktop  in the morning.
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September
« Last post by kyrathaba on July 17, 2013, 08:58 PM »
Shane Etter is reading the final draft, from a macro rather than micro (scanning for typos) perspective. He will let me know if he enjoys it. I think he will, because Chapter 14 of my novel is all about a setting/scene that featured in his book Bottom Dwellers. An accidental, but happy, coincidence.
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September
« Last post by kyrathaba on July 17, 2013, 07:49 PM »
You know what would totally rock? If OpenOffice team built in functionality to export a Word document (*.doc) in the particular flavor needed by Smashwords' Meatgrinder.
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September
« Last post by kyrathaba on July 17, 2013, 06:57 PM »
Perry and I just chatted. We want the four of us (Perry,  mouser,  4wd, and me) to read through the novel as a consumer seeking reading pleasure. When we finish, we each wanna rate it firstly just purely in terms of whether we found it to be a pleasurable read. Then we'll clean up any remaining technical points.


Samples downloaded

From DC hosting: 211
From Scribd: 39 reads, 50 followers
From Issuu: 7 reads, 438 impressions, 19 Like

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September
« Last post by kyrathaba on July 17, 2013, 12:58 PM »
Perry, sent you epub via email.
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September
« Last post by kyrathaba on July 17, 2013, 08:21 AM »
Chapter 8 culled. Beginning Chapter 9.
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September
« Last post by kyrathaba on July 17, 2013, 07:47 AM »
Chapter 7 culled. Beginning Chapter 8.
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September
« Last post by kyrathaba on July 17, 2013, 07:24 AM »
Here's what I posted yesterday on my FB author page:

As you know, the first draft of a story or novel is called the rough draft. We took my rough draft and scoured it for errors (typos, grammatical, logical, etc). This resulted in the 2nd draft. Now, I'm reading the 2nd draft cover to cover and making edits, polishing, leaving some stuff on the Cutting Room floor. When I'm done, we'll have the 3rd draft. This will be the Release Candidate. Me, my two proofreaders, and some beta-readers will decide if anything further needs tweaking, and then I'll publish. I'm currently up to Chapter 6 in this process.
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