About a year after the original release of The Dickensian Reset, I decided to share it with a close friend of mine who is going through his own medical scare lately.
I decided to re-read the text with fresh eyes, and found a number of issues in the original text. I spent the last month re-editing the book, and finally got my perfect read.
These edits included:
- Adding missing words
- Changing repeated words
- Improved punctuation
- changing some dashes and semicolons to colons where applicable
- standardizing the exclaimed question punctuation to !?
- Breaking quotes into their own paragraphs (in most cases)
- Clarifying who was speaking (on occasion)
The newly revised edition is now available on Amazon. I sent updated copies to Phoebe and my friend; I also (finally) sent a copy to the Library of Congress, which I was supposed to do months ago after I received my LCCN.
I also sent the updated editions to NYT and NPR. While I hope they will review the book, it's just as likely that it just gets thrown immediately in the trash heap since it is self-published; but, as the saying goes, you have to be in it to win it.
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