Ack! I need a young priest and an old priest…
For those of you who have picked up a copy of Finding Emma, you may have noticed a particular typo at about the half-way point of the book. Out of nowhere (as most typos are known to appear), the words “He Doug” starts a sentence.
It’s bad enough that the thing is a typo.
It’s worse that there is no “Doug” in the story.
It’s really bad that this typo doesn’t appear anywhere in my original document.
This is a breakdown of a recent KDP Select experiment (a six-day sale 6/22-6/26) I ran on three short fantasy titles of mine—Sword of Kings, Assassin, and Seven Into the Bleak—to see if visibility for one would mean sustained visibility for all. Read Part I here.
In preparation for promoting some upcoming titles, I wanted to check in with the giveaway page on Librarything.com and see if anything had changed since I ran some giveaways of my own back in November and January.
Things have changed all right. Imagine my surprise when I saw this news blurb on the LT homepage:
There are 11,007,517 copies of 85 books being given away.
Err…what?
I don’t have the writers block of popular imagination, the blank white screen and blinking cursor that keeps me paralyzed for hours. But I do have a “writers reluctance,” which in some ways might be even more insidious. This is a familiar syndrome for most of you, where the distractions of meta-writing—research, outlining, emailing, formatting an e-book, reading industry news, and, uh, writing blogs—get in the way of actually writing, even though all of this activity feels like you’re making progress.
This is a micro-post update on my Goodreads Giveaway. Some things I’ve gleaned in the last few days: