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Proofing for a Self-Publisher
As I mentioned in my previous post, I'm reading the first book in the Dragons of Westermere trilogy again. I'm doing it to refresh everything about the setting and characters in my mind, before starting work on the latest book.
This first book, The Pet Dragon, was my first self-published novel from way back in 2012, and this must be the third time I'm reading through it.
The crazy thing is that I'm still finding the odd typo here and there, about one every two chapters. It's a little frustrating, and probably something to do with this being my first book, and me not yet being quite so aware of what kind of problems can creep into the text.
Still it got me thinking about proofreading. I'm searching out advice right now, in articles like http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2015/0... but the truth is you just have to sit down, concentrate and read that book all over again.
This first book, The Pet Dragon, was my first self-published novel from way back in 2012, and this must be the third time I'm reading through it.
The crazy thing is that I'm still finding the odd typo here and there, about one every two chapters. It's a little frustrating, and probably something to do with this being my first book, and me not yet being quite so aware of what kind of problems can creep into the text.
Still it got me thinking about proofreading. I'm searching out advice right now, in articles like http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2015/0... but the truth is you just have to sit down, concentrate and read that book all over again.
