I’ve got a few posts percolating, but here’s a quickie for a Monday morning. Hard Day’s Knight has gotten a great review over on Grace Krispy’s MotherLode Blog. She enjoyed the book, and lodges some valid critiques about character development and editing. Editing is something that all self-pubbed (indie) authors struggle with, and I’m grateful that for the most part people give me at least a partial pass on a few typos. I try as hard as I can to weed them all out, and use beta readers and freelance editors to try and get the ones that I didn’t see, but some slip through the cracks nonetheless.

I’m not making excuses (yeah, I know I really am) because the ultimate goal is as error-free a product as can be produced, but for me typos are something that are going to fall below writing new material and promoting existing material, at least as long as I’m a one-man band. Once I get to the point where I can hire an assistant to handle some of those things, I’ll be doing everything myself, and thanking all that is holy for Richard Brodie every time I see the red squiggly line (inside joke, I’ll explain it over a drink if you care that much). And frankly, it’s hard and I’m pretty lazy by nature, so I appreciate the folks that read the books and enjoy them anyway, and I’ll take my lumps for the typos that slip past me and my editors.

But let’s be real clear – it’s not just a self-pub issue. I had real problems with a legacy publishing book a few months ago because there was a consistent homonym error. Not once, but every time the word was used, the incorrect homonym was chosen. I don’t remember the book, and I don’t remember the specific words, but it was something as basic as “through” instead of “threw.” And I remember how it jarred me out of the world of the book (and also made me a little schadenfreude – esque to see a major publishing house miss one, too. So I try to weed all the typos out of my work, because I know it’s important to keeping my readers in the world of the book and not disrupt the flow of the story. And thanks to all the readers and critics who cut me a little slack (just a little) for being stuck in a one-person enterprise.

On the promo and contest front – the winner of the Kindle/Nook/Gift Card will be announced this week!

Also on the promo tip I’ll be running a blog tour coming up in the near future, so there will be more coming on that soon.

And I’ve actually gotten rolling on Knight Moves, Book 3 of the Black Knight Chronicles. I’m only at a bout 3,000 words, but I’ve plotted most of it out, as well as a rough story arc for Books 4 & 5, so I should be able to get the first five books out by the end of next year!

Sales are cooking right along for April, so thanks for all the support, I appreciate it!

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