oh dear

[telophase]

If you're going to promote your book on Prolific Works (née Instafreebie), and you spell your protag's name one way on the cover and another way in the writeup, I'm probably going to pass over your book.

Comments

[delight]

It seems like one would have to try to fail that thoroughly and frightens me about what the book might look like.....

[telophase]

I can't believe the number of people trying to market books who have typos, grammar and punctuation mistakes, and sentences that are either run-on or missing a few words. In some cases it's obvious the author is ESL, but in most cases they're just careless errors.

I'm not sure how many of them are people trying to do the equivalent of a financial pump and dump by paying writers from Fiverr a few bucks each to plagiarize write a crapton of terrible books, then aggressively marketing them without caring about details, but at least some seem to be enthusiastic amateurs who mean well.

[yhlee]

I'm reminded of back when I used to judge IFComp (annual noncommercial text adventure games competition--anyone is welcome to download the games and rate them) and I got people screaming because I would dock major points if there was a typo in the first room description. Like, people! I know that proofreading is hard and everyone is human! I won't dock points for a couple typos in a game (it's another story if it's littered with them, because when it's a text game, errors in the text are errors in the game) but for heaven's sake the first description the player sees should be error-free!

[chomiji]

Oh dear.

Of course, I'm the one who just invited people to what might be a rather tense meeting with a subject line that began "Naling Down the Timeline ... ." *facepalm*