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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