Weekend Wrap-up April 8: Typos

The poetry book sale is over. I didn’t pay for any advertising, so I can’t be disappointed with the result. National Poetry Month is still going on as is #IndieApril, so look for a few more poet/poem related posts.

But, I do need to spend some time showcasing my sci-fi trilogy. I am uploading the final version of the manuscript to Amazon today, after fixing a typo my eagle-eye ARC reader spotted.

How do typos slip through? The three main reasons are, we read what we think we wrote, our brains read what makes sense, often correcting for us, and spell-checkers can’t correct a correctly spelled word. In book one of my trilogy, I recently spotted a double period at the end of a sentence.

So, don’t chastise an author if you spot a typo, it happens to indie and traditionally published authors all the time. Some authors may not, but I apreciate the heads-up so I can correct it.

-Leon

^{Did you spot the typo I slipped in to today’s post?}

Free Book Friday April 7: It’s a First! In Conversation with Nicole Pierman – Revisited – I really enjoyed doing this. It was fun commenting on what Nicole and I said 20 months ago.
Weird Wednesday April 5th: Cartoons, Post-apocalyptic poetry, and Poetry Sale – If you missed it, I posted all my post-apocalyptic poems there.
Music Monday April 3: Grace Carter

Start at the beginning: The View from Here

Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, and a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words.

My new book page: http://books.linesbyleon.com/

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