Regrets, I have a few. One of the major ones would be uploading my book to Amazon and telling ALL my friends prior to seeing it in printed form. I just finished re-reviewing the softcopy...Hand to face, embarrassing.
First off, when I uploaded it to Amazon, I was so happy it was over. It was just out there and I thought I had crossed a major milestone. I obviously sold five copies to family and friends. Very cool. Thank you for the donations.
Then, I went to CreateSpace. There, they recommended I receive a softcopy to proof. Oh, boy. There were missing verbs! Little, tee-tiny errors, but errors nonetheless.
Since then, I have fixed them all up (at least the ones I can spot) and I am republishing. This will bring the book "down" on the Amazon site while it reviews, but I would rather have it in perfect form then in poor form. It is just a shame that some of my closest friends may have seen the errors.
It is not the end of the world though. The one bright light? I was able to walk away from the project and return with fresh eyes. That helped immensely. The errors were always there, I was just in too much of a rush to notice them.
Words of advice from moi? Walk away from something. Give yourself a day or a week or even a month to process it all. AND ORDER THE SOFTCOPY! So worth the 5 bucks.
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