Thursday, August 1, 2013

ATTENTION!

ATTENTION!!!  I have had this blog for a little over two years.  It's amazing.  My last blog I think I only kept for a year...crazy huh?
I am wearing a sock as a headband, and it looks pretty great.  It's a bright, neon orange, knee high sock.  It makes a better headband than one would think!  I might even have my mom take a picture or two of it!
And I will definitely make sure to get pictures of the three pictures I have drawn for the cover art of Sword of a Princess.  I would like you guys to vote on it.  Maybe.  If you feel like it...which I hope you do...because I am woefully challenged in the area of decision making.  Well, with those kind of decisions.  And food.  But I'm pretty good at deciding who I want to be my friend and who I don't really care much about being my friend, although I will still be nice to them.  You know unless they're like a certain guy from my school and I end up having a major feud with them for the rest of the school year and stuff like that.  But normally, if I have the choice I'll just avoid the person altogether.
Okay, great new news!  The Unnamed Legend (my book) finally has T-Shirts!
Unnamed Legend T-Shirts
I need to sell 20 before 21 days is up, or the shirts will never print, but you won't get charged for a T-Shirt unless 20 are sold.
And while we're on the topic of my book....
The Unnamed Legend Paperback book on amazon
The Unnamed Legend e-book
Please, do not hesitate to buy a copy!  I know that there are grammatical errors, and they will probably never be fixed, but I promise you that the next book will not have all those errors.
See, here is where I give aspiring authors some advice: Do not spend all your time when the book is done, editing, and re-editing it yourself.  You know making different drafts.  Make your first draft, then make a second draft, then give it to someone else to edit, then go back through, and make the necessary changes, and edit it yourself several more times until you're sure all the little grammar mistakes are gone, then this is where you give it to someone who is really good at grammar, tell them, "Don't you dare change anything but commas, periods, semi-colons, and other things like that, because that's already been done, and I like my book just fine how it is." let them run ramped fixing all those errors you thought you'd gotten rid of, then you go through it one last time, make sure there are no more grammatical errors, don't change a bit of the dialogue, then publish it before you get cold feet.
In short: DON'T EDIT IT A MILLION TIMES BEFORE GIVING IT TO AN EDITOR!  The reason for that is that you will get sick and tired of it, realize you DON'T want to memorize your book, and not want to spend the necessary time fixing minor errors that wouldn't take much to be fixed, but just need to be found.
Comprende?
Okay, now as we're on the topic of books, I think I'm gonna go write in this one book that doesn't have a name yet, but I'm sure is going to be awesome.
~Katie :)

1 comment:

  1. I don't edit NEARLY that many times...My first book came out pretty badly though, half a chapter was gone and there were other punctuational and line errors...But I fixed them and the book came out much better.

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