Deadly Delays
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Nothing in life is perfect, and the process of publishing is so far from perfect that saints look askance at everyone in the profession, including writers.
Especially writers.
I received a proofing copy of AFTERLIFE, my upcoming novella. Now, every book ever printed has some problem with it. A typo, a typesetting glitch, some other minor defect. As long as they are few and not disruptive to reader enjoyment, publishers will go to press with the defects included.
AFTERLIFE has one too many blunders for my taste. Most problems are minor. But there is a typo in chapter #1 that causes the reader to have to read the sentence several times before they get that there is a problem and decipher what the sentence should have said. Two minor and non-disruption typos, and two formatting errors can be found as well. Combined these defects have caused me to seek fixes, which will add a few weeks to the release date.
So, in order to keep your attention and build interest in AFTERLIFE, I offer one of the cover blurbs and a passage from the book.
“… imaginative, funny and smart.” – Heidi Springer
Being a born-again atheist, I figured Eddie was the perfect test subject. But he stood frozen like a deer in the swirling headlamp of The Light.
Eddie was a devout smoker and thus an equally devout cancer patient. His prognosis was unavoidable and his last days limited. He spewed bravado as friends and family – all Baptist and all pious to the point of putridness – attempted to bring him back into their flock. Eddie was clearly the black-lunged sheep of the family.
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