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Offline Stixx

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Shameless Self Promotion
« on: January 11, 2012, 08:19:05 AM »
My novel Shadows of the Past is now available at Amazon.com

Inspired by the Cthulu Mythos, Shadows of the Past takes the reader on a pulse pounding journey that spans three days as the ongoing battle between good and evil is joined. Sam Hardin and Jack Griffith go head to head in a fight to the death from which only one can emerge victorious while in the balance hangs the future of all mankind.

http://www.amazon.com/Shadows-Past-Richard-Schiver/dp/0615583180/ref=tmm_pap_title_0
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Re: Shameless Self Promotion
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2012, 08:23:25 AM »
Firing up the Kindle, now  :rock
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« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2012, 08:31:36 AM »
Purchased and congrats!  :rock
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« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2012, 11:13:40 AM »
 :salute if i still worked for waldenbooks i would get it. :aok

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« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2012, 11:20:10 AM »

I'll wait for the free, hacked version.





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« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2012, 11:44:00 AM »
Purchased and congrats!  :rock

Thank you, I hope you enjoy it.


Rick
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« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2012, 12:00:58 PM »
Grats Stixx. I would love to hear about how you get the book into print :)

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« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2012, 12:31:44 PM »
Thank you, I hope you enjoy it.


Rick

I'm a closet Lovecraft-ian nut.  You had me at Cthulu Mythos  :devil
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« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2012, 03:37:23 PM »
:x

You guys too, huh? Awesome :aok

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« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2012, 04:30:06 PM »
The preview was excellent. I'll definitely be picking this up soon.
Put a +1 on your geekness atribute  :aok

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« Reply #10 on: January 11, 2012, 04:47:46 PM »
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Re: Shameless Self Promotion
« Reply #11 on: January 13, 2012, 07:54:19 AM »
Grats Stixx. I would love to hear about how you get the book into print :)
Remember, you asked.
That's probably the toughest part right there. Writing the story itself was a lot of fun. But once that was done I moved into the detail phase. Went over the whole manuscript five times myself, then turned it over to a professional editor thinking they would be impressed by my prowess with punctuation and grammar.
Was I wrong.
Got the manuscript back and couldn't read it with all the red and blue marks cluttering the page.
After a week fixing everything, and I mean a solid week, since I'm unemployed I have plenty of time, morning to night correcting copy. The manuscript had to be set in its final form ie: trim size, margins, pagination, headers, footers, front matter, rear matter, all the while making sure page number one of the finished book stayed on the right hand side.
It was then converted to PDF and sent to the printer to run a proof copy. After two proofs the final product emerged.
Even after all that I still find parts I feel could be better. But eventually you just gotta let go, put your baby out there,and for better or worse move on.
Right now I'm working on a novella, 84 pages, titled Enter Night, and my next novel Reprisal. Enter Night will definitely be released this year.

The preview was excellent. I'll definitely be picking this up soon.

Thank you, I Hope you enjoy it.

I'll wait for the free, hacked version.
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Might be awhile. I think they only hack the well known writers. I'm a nobody flying below their radar.

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« Reply #12 on: January 16, 2012, 06:16:13 AM »
On my Kindle, there are a lot of punctuation hiccups and words just plain missing.  I find them to be (for the most part) the last word of a sentence.

Since your ARE a writer and have already stated that you have gone through and did the revisions, it is more likely that the conversion to electronic format is the culprit.

Rest assured that your's is not the only literary work that I have seen this happen to.  I just read The Great Gatsby over the weekend and it looked like the person that converted it was a 7 year-old with a mouthful of pop-tarts and a lisp using Dragon software.

I would suggest that you check it out for yourself.  I purchased it from the Kindle store.
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Re: Shameless Self Promotion
« Reply #13 on: January 17, 2012, 06:00:49 PM »
On my Kindle, there are a lot of punctuation hiccups and words just plain missing.  I find them to be (for the most part) the last word of a sentence.

Since your ARE a writer and have already stated that you have gone through and did the revisions, it is more likely that the conversion to electronic format is the culprit.

Rest assured that your's is not the only literary work that I have seen this happen to.  I just read The Great Gatsby over the weekend and it looked like the person that converted it was a 7 year-old with a mouthful of pop-tarts and a lisp using Dragon software.

I would suggest that you check it out for yourself.  I purchased it from the Kindle store.

Thank you for the heads  up. Will look into this right now and I'll get you a free copy once the problem has been sorted out.
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« Reply #14 on: January 18, 2012, 07:17:36 AM »
Thank you for the heads  up. Will look into this right now and I'll get you a free copy once the problem has been sorted out.

I appreciate it.  :aok

I got a few more books over the weekend.  Again, I will say that this is not an issue with your work, exclusively.

It is a shame, because I am an avid reader.  With all the fervor over the Kindle, my wife got one for me for Christmas.

I'm not exactly sure what the method for conversion to ebook formats is, but whatever it is, it seems that all the bugs are not worked out.
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