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12:22pm on Wednesday, 15th September, 2021:
Anecdote
I was planning on (finally) releasing my Lizzie Lott #3 book yesterday. I had everything set up; I merely needed to upload the finalised text and I was ready to go.
Hmm. So when I set the price a few months ago, I went with the minimum it would allow me: £8.00 . Since then, either the page count increased or the price calculation changed; either way, the minimum price as of yesterday was £8.02 . This meant I had to rebuild the jacket with the new price (I went with £8.40 in case it went up again) and order a new proof to make sure that what I think it should look like is what it does look like.
The final time I read the book all the way through, it needed 72 changes (including another sentence that ended in ? instead of . but wasn't a question). I made the changes, waited a few days, then re-read only the pages I changed. As a result of that, I only needed to make 81 new changes (sigh). Nevertheless, I persisted with the technique. On the next pass, I only had to make 23 changes — a breakthrough! On the one after that, it went down to 11, then the one after that it was just 2. The final pass reduced it to zero, hence my decision to publish it before I changed my mind.
I have some reorganising to do before I can publish How to Be a God, though, so don't hold your breath on that one....
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