Proof reading is a pain in the back side. I can understand why authors pay proof readers to do the work for them. Not only is it tedious, but having written and re-written and read and re-read the novel (“As Luck Might Have It”), I’ve become so familiar with it that I can no longer accurately see the typos and misspellings.

My husband helped with the proof reading (I always order two proof copies), but he can’t help me when, in the process of editing and correcting the digital manuscript, I make new mistakes. Sigh.

Kindle Direct Publishing does a really great job of making self-publishing easy. But … they don’t have spell check for the hard copy versions. They do offer spell-checking for the eBook version.

I wish that I would remember that and make the eBook ready for publishing  first before the paperback. But alas, I hit the publishing button on the paperback and then went on to do the eBook and KDP’s quality monitoring program found two spelling mistakes. Both were made during the editing process when I was supposed to be fixing mistakes and not making new ones.

So now I have to wait until the paperback is available … it’s processing now and changes can’t be made during processing … before I can make any changes to the content of the paperback. Dang!

On the other hand, I did it. It’s done … mostly. Now I can get back to work on the next Orwell Gasteyer novel.

Photo and quote courtesy of Kitaboo and A-Z quotes, respectively