Monday, June 24, 2024

Still Editing, One Year Later

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)
While most of these changes do not impact the overall story, they do improve the general quality of the work.

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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