My Preview Hot Mess or How I Shot Myself in the Foot

I must begin this article with an apology. Some of you had the misfortune of trying to view previews of my novels, and still had the grace not to say, “You dolt!” I could plead ignorance, but that would be stating the obvious. To make a long story short, when I began the previews, I must have uploaded something other than the PDF files that Goodreads requires. The result was files with a nice cover illustration, but with painfully slow pagination which sent the would-be reader through all the front matter. The formatting was also wrong, resulting in an extremely amateurish and sloppy presentation.

I removed all those old “neverviews,” and replaced them with real meat. Each preview runs from 75 to 85 pages, compared to the 45 pages or so you get on one of my Amazon Look Insides. I end each preview with a complete scene instead of cutting you off in the middle of something. If you were disgusted with the previews earlier, give me another chance.