Self Publishing Blues

It's always a disappointment when someone gives your precious work a negative review. It's even worse when it's deserved. My most recent mishap was with my "Oltarin" novel.  The reviewer panned my novel due to grammar errors.

So I went back and checked the file. Groan! The reviewer was right. I wrote parts of the book with voice recognition software. So there were enough errors to be annoying. The person didn't even comment on the story.  Had they contacted me instead, I would have c...