Publishing
The Sea We Know: New Links
Friday April 16, 2010 • Filed in: Writing
Sunday 9:52 PM PST More trouble, or at least sometimes. If you have trouble with the regular link to buy a copy of The Sea We Know, try from my Lulu storefront.
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Saturday 10:02 AM PST The new link to order a paperback copy of The Sea We Know seems to work now. The old link redirects to the new one, but it is safer to use the newer one. Lulu said it was in site maintenance mode, but obviously some of its inner workings have been changed.
I could never get the eBook first-90-page-only preview to work correctly again: It appeared that some of the settings had been corrupted and any attempts to repair would either get “Unrecoverable Errors” or it would seem to be fixed, but still not work. So it’s gone and the free preview is now only available from my site. Go to downloads where I have also added the errata sheet for those with older paperback copies.
I have updated the links around this site to the new place for the 90-page preview and the errata. When possible, please update yours if you have posted them anywhere. Again, sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused.
Below lies only updates from this misadventure.
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Friday 8:06 PM PST Now Lulu is saying the book in any format doesn’t exist anymore when I click on the link from this site or search for it on Lulu. The 90-page Preview from this site does work. Sorry for any inconvenience. Will try again tomorrow, as sometimes time takes care of these things.
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Friday 1:15 PM PST You can now download a free 90-page Preview directly from this site. This is the first 90 pages only of a 300 page book. Please let me know if there are any problems. Will still have to fix a few things on Lulu’s pages, but maybe having the download from here is for the best in the long run.
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Friday 12:46 PM PST The old link to the paperback copy works again. The link to the eBook 90-page preview still does not, and when I try to recreate the book on Lulu, I keep getting an “unrecoverable error.” It may be a while before I get this fix as I have to go out now.
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Lulu apparently is working on its site and there now seems to be a new link to order a copy of The Sea We Know. Also, the link to download a free 90-page preview has been having some problems: the old one stopped working and, as of this moment, I am not able to recreate a new one on Lulu. Will see if I can find out more later and get this functioning again.
The Sea We Know: Free Shipping
Friday April 16, 2010 • Filed in: Writing
Free Shipping from Lulu.com until May 1st with coupon code FREEMAIL305. Good for a copy or The Sea We Know or any other book that Lulu prints.
From Lulu’s email: "Use coupon code FREEMAIL305 at checkout and receive $3.99 towards your final shipping cost. This amount is the US mail cost for a single book order. Please note: there will be a shipping total listed on your order receipt. This coupon code will reduce your final order total by $3.99, which is the US mail cost for a single book."
Also, note that Lulu has changed the link to the book on their site. The old one seems to redirect okay, but it’s safer to use the new one. Other changes on Lulu have led me to move the free first-90-page-only preview of The Sea We Know to downloads. I have also added the latest errata sheet for those with older paperback copies to this new page. A more detailed, but boring, account of why all these changes can be found on the previous blog post.
The Sea We Know - Updated
Wednesday February 03, 2010 • Filed in: Writing
opps. iphone photo: frank m sheldon
I have updated the prepublication edition of my novel, The Sea We Know, and both the print version and the free downloadable first 90 pages eBook now include all known typo and other corrections. Other changes:
- Some edits that came out of the script for the podcast have been incorporated.
- The first page and a half has been slightly revised.
- Along with that, the character formerly known as “Gottschaulk” is now called “Gilyard.”
- “Book I” and “Book II” have been dropped from the cover, title page, and headers.
- Some new additions to the Acknowledgement section have been added.
You can check this out in the free ebook preview of the first 90 pages. For those with older copies, the latest errata are always downloadable from here.
The Sea We Know, Corrections
Sunday January 10, 2010 • Filed in: Writing
UPDATE: the errata sheet can now be downloaded by anyone from here.
UPDATE: 2010-01-17 - fixed broken link to errata sheet, and the new beginning is now included.
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Added all the correction found by MB and JT in the print-on-demand editions I produced in the last part of 2009 and uploaded to Lulu.com. Some of this also involved rewriting a few paragraphs, a hazardous thing to do as, in the course of fixing perceived problems with the text, one can unwittingly introduced new ones not to mention new typos.
Also, on the advice of MB, I changed the name of a minor character, Gottschaulk. I came up with Gilyard. One of the problems was that his name was the first word in the book, which the reader found too jarring, but the name itself started to seem a little too much in the mouth. I decided to redo the first two pages and it seems much better to me, or at least it does now. The challenge, of course, is to get the reader immediately into the story, but not so immediately that they become so lost that they don’t want to bother to find out more. Ideally, there is enough to allow the reader to come into the story and let it create itself in their mind, but not so much that they do not wonder and want to know more. In a word, they need to care.
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if you want to read the new beginning, you can download a free preview copy of the first 90 pages only here.
UPDATE: 2010-01-17 - fixed broken link to errata sheet, and the new beginning is now included.
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Added all the correction found by MB and JT in the print-on-demand editions I produced in the last part of 2009 and uploaded to Lulu.com. Some of this also involved rewriting a few paragraphs, a hazardous thing to do as, in the course of fixing perceived problems with the text, one can unwittingly introduced new ones not to mention new typos.
Also, on the advice of MB, I changed the name of a minor character, Gottschaulk. I came up with Gilyard. One of the problems was that his name was the first word in the book, which the reader found too jarring, but the name itself started to seem a little too much in the mouth. I decided to redo the first two pages and it seems much better to me, or at least it does now. The challenge, of course, is to get the reader immediately into the story, but not so immediately that they become so lost that they don’t want to bother to find out more. Ideally, there is enough to allow the reader to come into the story and let it create itself in their mind, but not so much that they do not wonder and want to know more. In a word, they need to care.
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if you want to read the new beginning, you can download a free preview copy of the first 90 pages only here.
Loaner Program
Monday January 04, 2010 • Filed in: Writing
I now have a loaner program for the prepublication version of the novel I wrote, The Sea We Know. Briefly, send me a request, and I will mail or hand you a paperback copy. When you’re done, mail or hand it on to the next person who would like to read it. Details here.
EDIT: This program is no longer available.
image creation: frank m sheldon
EDIT: This program is no longer available.
image creation: frank m sheldon