It was a deadline to me. Mary Ann had scheduled a short trip to the Lost Maples State Park so that she could photograph fall colors in Texas. I had reached the waiting point in the latest novel “Roswell or Bust” where sample copies had gone out to my first readers and I won’t be… Continue reading Lost Maples Deadline
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I Found Myself in Google Print
Just on a whim, after seeing all the commentary and news releases on Google Print, I entered “Henry Melton” into the search engine and found that, indeed, one of my works has been scanned into the print search engine. They’ve been talking about all the public domain works that have been entered, but there are… Continue reading I Found Myself in Google Print
Listening to the Novel
Before I can turn the novel over to first readers, I like to make several passes through the text to catch errors. One of my regular methods is to convert the novel into spoken text and listen to it. Lots of simple errors can be caught this way. Reading a novel can be done in… Continue reading Listening to the Novel