Yesterday I received my first book review, ever, on Smashwords from Mike O'Conner in Ireland. He praised the book Blood Reich thoroughly and concluded with his only complaint which was that the book contained a lot of spelling errors.
Hmmm....
My wife had just read the first six chapter and I of course read the whole book and didn't find any spelling errors, but Mike had. The Word spell checker hadn't found them either. Now I'm dreading having to sift through the book with a fine toothed comb looking for spelling errors. I guess I know how I'll be spending the next few days.
On the flip side, it was incredibly exciting actually hearing from someone who had read one of my books and liked it. All these years of silence has been stressful. Not hearing from anyone about your work makes you wonder whether you're any good. Anyway, I definitely appreciate the review more than the couple of bucks that I made off the sale. Think of it, I made a connection with someone thousands of miles away through my little baby. I'm still reveling in the glow.
Enough for today (glow, glow, glow...).
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