Advance Reader Copies (ARC) are early versions of books that are printed in limited numbers and sent to reviewers in hopes that early buzz and quotable reviews can be gathered in time to add them to the final released book cover. Since the big name reviewers like Publishers Weekly request these ARCs four months in… Continue reading Creating the Pixie Dust ARC
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Yes, Send Me the Typos
A little thread on the @maureenjohnson twitter stream about typo’s in books, from an author’s perspective prompted me to give you this little look into how I deal with typos in my books. First, typos exist. It is a very rare book with no glitches. Some misspellings, incorrect word choices, etc. have been in the… Continue reading Yes, Send Me the Typos
Second Thoughts About My Twitter Contest
Since November of 2007, I’ve been running a low-key contest on Twitter. It was very simple, I ran a couple of Perl scripts to archive any tweets containing @HenryMelton, which for the most part were replies to me about something. Once a month, I ran a second script that randomly pulled one of the userid’s… Continue reading Second Thoughts About My Twitter Contest