{"id":2065,"date":"2011-12-28T21:02:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T02:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/?p=2065"},"modified":"2011-12-28T21:12:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T02:12:32","slug":"a-faerie-fated-facelift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/28\/a-faerie-fated-facelift\/","title":{"rendered":"A Faerie Fated Facelift"},"content":{"rendered":"

I've given \"A Faerie Fated Forever<\/a>\" a facelift - at least on Amazon. \u00a0The changes will boogle over to B&N and Smashwords eventually, but the new version is bright and shiny and STILL FREE for Kindle.\u00a0 Why isn't the new version available everywhere right now, you ask?\u00a0 Because of the technical magic behind the scenes.\u00a0 I can only work minor magic (tweaks I can make in Word). It takes my hubby, John the Magnificent,\u00a0to work the high-grade magic Smashwords demands.<\/p>\n

Right now, Faerie feeds out FREE to all the bookstores from Smashwords - except Amazon.\u00a0 And the meat-grinder at SW is not for the faint of heart.\u00a0 Sometimes even John the Magnificent has to tweak things a couple of times to satisfy the oh-so-exacting SW meat-grinder.\u00a0 Like all wizards, John the Magnificent stays busy.\u00a0 When he has time to direct his magic to\u00a0the SW version of Faerie, we'll get it out there.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

The older \"enlarged\" version of Faerie also remains in the Forever Series Bundle <\/a>on Amazon and elsewhere.\u00a0 I may leave the enlarged version in the bundle.\u00a0 It gives\u00a0an incentive to buy the bundle because then it'll be the only place to read the full, original version.\u00a0 (Inside every author building a platform marketing genes must grow - otherwise, the\u00a0author's career won't grow either.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

The edit to Faerie started with an email from the KDP maestros.\u00a0 They said a customer had complained of spelling errors in the book and asked me to check it out.\u00a0 The maestros didn't remove the book or do anything a'tall heavy-handed. They simply made a request.\u00a0 The huge, hideous error pointed out in the email was that once (and it was only once) I used the word brown when it should have read brow.\u00a0 Okay, that was snarky, wasn't it?\u00a0 I have a little snark inside but I try never to feed it! Anyway, none of the spelling errors was major and in the original 100,000 word plus version I only found about 3 or 4 ( brown for brow, losses for looses, a missing e, and blond for blonde).\u00a0 All were minor, but all are now fixed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The spelling \"errors\"\u00a0were\u00a0smaller than many I've run across in books published by the\u00a0big houses, but that's no excuse really.\u00a0 And my snarkiness is like a porcupine's quills -\u00a0a defense mechanism.\u00a0 Truthfully, if an error bothered a reader, then it should be fixed.\u00a0 And it was.\u00a0 But that's where the journey started.\u00a0 While I was listening to readers, I recalled some of the book's reviews that complained it was too long.\u00a0 So I turned a sharp eye to editing for length.<\/p>\n

Some of my favorite events are missing from the new version, but they were things that kept Heather and Neil in England for a while\u00a0after their reunion.\u00a0 I loved those events because\u00a0they confirmed that Neil and Heather loved each other.\u00a0 But a goodly number of\u00a0readers wanted the story to pace a little faster and now it does.\u00a0 But it's not just the plot edits that pace the tale faster\u00a0because I also edited for word choice.\u00a0 I tightened the language and kicked more adverbs to the curb than I thought I knew.\u00a0 But it turned out - when I wrote Faerie,\u00a0I had a near Guiness Record setting mass\u00a0of \"adverbial knowledge.\"\u00a0 I didn't\u00a0just know the adverbs- I loved them in a deep and meaningless way.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yes, Virginia, you guessed the next part - I sprinkled a\u00a0generous helping of my adverbial prowess in Faerie.\u00a0 But undoubtedly, assuredly and categorically, I\u00a0guarantee that the remaining adverbs are\u00a0nearly absolutely\u00a0necessary.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now that Faerie's had a facelift, I'd appreciate all y'all checking her out, especially if you\u00a0read or reviewed the prior version.\u00a0 It's my understanding that if you email Amazon, they'll let you download the new one even though the older version is still in your library.\u00a0 Since Faerie is free, you have nothing to lose by checking out the new model.\u00a0 If you like the story, you might pick up the Forever Series Bundle <\/a>which will let you compare and contrast the new lean mean tale with the original gauzy, gaudy fuller version.\u00a0 The Bundle is only $5.99 on Amazon.<\/p>\n

Like I said, right now the trim, toned version of Faerie is an Amazon exclusive. Pick it up free for your Kindle or Kindle Fire (Or Kindle for PC - available as a free download from Amazon).\u00a0 And be sure to quack back and let me know what you think because the changes to the story were made based on reader reviews and feedback.\u00a0 See, I love y'all.\u00a0 I really, really love y'all.\u00a0 And just\u00a0like any red-blooded romance heroine, I\u00a0want y'all to love me back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I've given \"A Faerie Fated Forever\" a facelift - at least on Amazon. \u00a0The changes will boogle over to B&N and Smashwords eventually, but the new version is bright and shiny and STILL FREE for Kindle.\u00a0 Why isn't the new version available everywhere right now, you ask?\u00a0 Because of the technical magic behind the scenes.\u00a0 ...continue reading \"A Faerie Fated Facelift\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}