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Originally Posted by HarryT
You may wish to edit your banner - it doesn't make any grammatical sense. "Coming October 2010" and "Are you ready?" should be two separate sentences.
I read the short story you posted recently, "The Blood of Coldfrost" and, to be honest, you really, REALLY need to get help from a professional editor to give you some guidelines. Although it was a good story, the grammar was just ghastly. No matter how good a storyteller you are, grammar is a writer's toolbox, and if you don't know how to use those tools properly, people aren't going to read your books.
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Harry, I wish you hadn't written this -- I just bought his fantasy for $9 on Smashwords after looking at the first few pages, which were fine. I don't have the patience to read the samples, although in this case, if I bought a lemon it is my fault because he did provide a very generous sample.
FWIW, I'm working my way through the new Brandon Sanderson epic,
The Way of Kings. It has several errors, albeit minor, in the first 300 pages, such as wrong word, dropped articles, and the like -- at least in the ebook version (I haven't checked it against the print version, which I also bought), but the biggest problem with the Sanderson ebook is the inability to read the illustrations, which are integral to the story. I wrote about this problem last week in
The Problem Is: Publishers Don’t Read eBooks!
I keep reading Sanderson's book but can't decide if it is good, bad, or indifferent. Hopefully I'll know by the end
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