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Old 08-23-2014, 07:53 PM   #20551
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Originally Posted by ATDrake View Post
It's actually the 6th book which wasn't completed (which is a shame, since it would have been fun to see the skewering of the dot.com bubble), but Cook's put part of what he'd written so far online. The 5th book, The Wizardry Quested, is only available in paperback, though.
Ah, yes. My mistake; I should've remembered that, especially given how much time I spent searching for it.

I just finished a self-pub novel that shows the value of a good copyeditor...in that it really needed one. The copyright page actually names an editor, but there were some shockingly glaring oversights - and I'm not talking about once in a while, but in every chapter. Homophones were abused, with "reign" standing in for "rein" and sometimes even "rain," and in one case fir/fur were used interchangeably in the same short paragraph.

Now, I know that sounds like a hit job, which is why I'm not naming the book...but the tragedy is that the story itself is pretty good. Yes, there are a couple of head-scratcher plot points, but I enjoyed it overall and will probably pick up the sequel. It's just that, well...

The beast story on urf aint no dam gud if it looks like this. Nobodies gonna reed it.
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