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Originally Posted by pilotbob
funny... many people attribute books of Dan Brown and other "best sellers" with the above attributes. Books which certainly have gone through the editing process with a publisher.
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Only because they haven't seen some of the drek that gets released on Lulu.
As much as I think many published books have formulaic dialogue and flat characters and inane descriptions, they are much, much better than a lot of the unedited manuscripts being "self-published."
May I introduce you to
The Eye of Argon, a short story written in 1970? Some self-published ebooks available today--sometimes for sale at Amazon--match it for quality.
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"Prepare to embrace your creators in the stygian haunts of
hell, barbarian", gasped the first soldier.
"Only after you have kissed the fleeting stead of death,
wretch!" returned Grignr.
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