How do you....
So recently I picked up a few free books on Amazon.com for my kindle. I started on one tonight, and it's horrible. I mean, downright bad. I would rate it one star.
As an author, I hesitate to do this because I feel like if I do the author of the book may choose to retaliate in some way, however, as a reader I am absolutely appalled at some of the reviews. After reading part of the book, I know that the 5 and 4 stars that were given to the book are fake. Especially the one that says the editing was superb.
I'm not an editor, but as a college educated woman with several years experience writing, and many more reading, I can tell what's been edited, and what hasn't been.
I feel bad for the author, but honestly I feel WAY worse for the people who are actually paying for this manuscript. It could be fantastic with some significant editing, but I don't think the author had it professionally edited or knows that she really needs to read her work OUT LOUD to herself before publishing it.
What to do?
As an author, I hesitate to do this because I feel like if I do the author of the book may choose to retaliate in some way, however, as a reader I am absolutely appalled at some of the reviews. After reading part of the book, I know that the 5 and 4 stars that were given to the book are fake. Especially the one that says the editing was superb.
I'm not an editor, but as a college educated woman with several years experience writing, and many more reading, I can tell what's been edited, and what hasn't been.
I feel bad for the author, but honestly I feel WAY worse for the people who are actually paying for this manuscript. It could be fantastic with some significant editing, but I don't think the author had it professionally edited or knows that she really needs to read her work OUT LOUD to herself before publishing it.
What to do?
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Haha no girl I paid for it. I put down the awful one and started readin yours.
Ugh! Started another book I got for free on Amazon.com and it was horrible too!
i know that there were some typos and grammaticals in my book after editing too. i had a colleague edit it, but some still made it in. i was mortified. i used independent publishing, and was able to pull what had been published and re-release. and when i say mortified, i MEAN mortified. as in sat in the shower and cried mortified. and this was over minor mistakes. when i read books that are like this, i am embarrassed for the author. but then i read books where there are spelling mistakes, and incorrect word choice and have little compassion. there is one thing to make include a double "the" somewhere, or one or two poorly constructed sentences, and another thing entirely to use big words incorrectly. just because you can spell a $10 word doesn't mean you know the meaning of it.
and now that i have said that, i am sure it is going to come back and bite me in the ass too.
LOL @Amy. I re-read mine and found a couple of small mistakes too, and re-edited it again and re-released it. I think the first manuscript of a self published author is always the one they make the most mistakes on because they're getting into something that they've never done before. I feel for you as far as the mortified. I read some of these books and wonder whether the author even re-read their work or anything like that. I personally re-read mine at least four times, since I was no longer "creating" I could totally look at it with a critical eye. You've no idea how many "that"'s I deleted.
i know there are probably still some errors in mine, and at some point you just have to accept it. i am such a perfectionist, that i could probably go back in and change things every day for the next 5 years and still not be satisfied. at some point, enough is enough. and i think i am ok with that. this week.
I know how you feel. I could constantly go back and edit, and re-edit every single thing about my book, and I have to tell myself to stop, it's done. Now all I have to do is focus on the other ones in the series and get finished with those.
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Having said that, I'm wracking my brain, trying to figure if I remember you saying you got Wicked Allure free. :-)