Perceptive regular readers of the weblog here will notice the books-for-sale list has a new addition: Champion of the Dead is now available as an ebook at Smashwords -- you can download a preview by clicking into the listing, over there under the picture to the right. The Kindle version on Amazon.com should be up in a couple days, so they tell me.
All things going well, I'll be sticking up the short mystery novel Curse the Darkness in the next few days, too, same deal -- you can read the first 15% as a preview, and buy it or not.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming ...
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Oh, and if you should buy this book and you happen to like it, consider putting up a good review where you got it. Every little bit helps ...
If you hate it, while I'd prefer you keep that to yourself, let's keep it honest -- if you do a review and you think it sucks, tell the truth.
I started, "Champion," last night on my "iPad Kindle." I like the story, so far, but it seems like there are a noticeable number of typos. I'm guessing this was "computer copied" from a previous text, Steve? This is the major weakness I have found with "cross-over" versions of texts.
You probably already spelled that out in your post and I just missed that part, sorry!
I did notice a bunch of these when I translated stuff from the old version to the new. I thought I'd caught a lot of it with global searching, but either I missed 'em or the translator could have stuck some artifacts i've seen that happen sometimes when going from Pages to Word -- and Smashword's translator doesn't like the Pages-export-to-Word, so I have to strain stuff through OpenOffice.org.
I think the problem is that the "errors" are real words, just the wrong ones for the sentence. It probably complicates things that you're also using words / phrases from multiple languages.
I doubt there is an transcription program that can "understand" words in context.
Still enjoying the story, though! (Like I'd expect anything less?) ;~)
I uploaded a newer version, which in theory you should be able to get if you bought the earlier one. Dunno if it fixed anything ...
Dear Mr. Perry,
Thank goodness I found your blog and your e-books. We often don't know how much we miss something till we find it again.
Also,
I just stayed up waaaay to late at my age to finish Champion of the Dead. Thanks for the joy.
Always happy to hear I kept somebody up past their bedtime ...
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