Joy
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David Dalglish:
I'm revisiting your 'Shadowcloak' books now that I found them republished. Do you feel they're better than the first go around? It seems like there's more background detail in the new release. I enjoyed them the first time so had to find out what changed and I'm curious about what it's like to work with 'professional' book people over self-publication.
David Dalglish
Few questions here, so lemme see if I can bang these out.
Yes, I feel they are absolutely better. A lot of inconsistencies are gone, muddled character motivations are clarified or now make actual sense, and most tiny errors have been removed.
Differences between self-pub and Orbit: with Orbit, I can be a little less "write or die" and more "okay let's do this right". Not that I slap-dashed crap out while self-publishing, but with Orbit, there's going to be a lot of eyes on the product within the company, and I'll end up doing far more passes on the book with a lot more input from editors compared to my normal process. Overall, I like it. Plus spiffy covers that I don't have to pay for.
If you want a specific discussion on what changed on each book, btw, I did some posts for each one. You can find them here:
Cloaks: http://ddalglish.com/wp/2013/10/08/a-...
Blades: http://ddalglish.com/wp/2013/11/05/a-...
Mirrors: http://ddalglish.com/wp/2013/12/03/a-...
Shadows: http://ddalglish.com/wp/2014/05/21/a-...
Yes, I feel they are absolutely better. A lot of inconsistencies are gone, muddled character motivations are clarified or now make actual sense, and most tiny errors have been removed.
Differences between self-pub and Orbit: with Orbit, I can be a little less "write or die" and more "okay let's do this right". Not that I slap-dashed crap out while self-publishing, but with Orbit, there's going to be a lot of eyes on the product within the company, and I'll end up doing far more passes on the book with a lot more input from editors compared to my normal process. Overall, I like it. Plus spiffy covers that I don't have to pay for.
If you want a specific discussion on what changed on each book, btw, I did some posts for each one. You can find them here:
Cloaks: http://ddalglish.com/wp/2013/10/08/a-...
Blades: http://ddalglish.com/wp/2013/11/05/a-...
Mirrors: http://ddalglish.com/wp/2013/12/03/a-...
Shadows: http://ddalglish.com/wp/2014/05/21/a-...
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