Authors often solicit opinions from beta-readers--folks who read and comment before the book's published.
Thing is, different readers have very different opinions! Who's right? Which comments need to be heeded?
In my own experience, with my pre-publication edition of…
Alexander M Zoltai's Blog – December 2010 Archive (15)
Read > Write > Publish > Repeat = A Wonderfully Strange Life
I'll start explaining the title's formula with the word "strange". Its
history shows it meaning, "from elsewhere, foreign, unknown,
unfamiliar".
A Strange Life...
So does reading then writing then publishing then repeating the process create a life that's
unfamiliar, unknown, foreign, and from elsewhere?
Ask any serious writer :-)
The reason I started this little explanatory formula with reading is
because I'm in agreement with the folks… Continue
history shows it meaning, "from elsewhere, foreign, unknown,
unfamiliar".
A Strange Life...
So does reading then writing then publishing then repeating the process create a life that's
unfamiliar, unknown, foreign, and from elsewhere?
Ask any serious writer :-)
The reason I started this little explanatory formula with reading is
because I'm in agreement with the folks… Continue
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Many Readers, Many Opinions ~ Who To Believe & Why...
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This Author's Job ~ Reading Reality Right
Added by Alexander M Zoltai on December 23, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments
The Harpoon Or The Net? ~ Gaining Influence...
December 20, 2010
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So, I Wrote A Book... ~~~ So What?
December 18, 2010
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What's It Like Inside When You Read A Book?
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Book Promotion Blues ~ "Hey! It's A Job :-)"
Yes! It's definitely a job to do book promotion. My book's scheduled to be published in March. I've been promoting it for over a year--way before I wrote it. The "experts" say that's very important these days...
Last post, I talked about integrating Twitter into my promotion efforts. Twitter is a weird space but it has great…
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Watching The Words Fly By ~ Sucking Up Meanings
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Is It *Really* Possible To Get-Along With Everybody?
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Google, Amazon, &The Author ~ Or, The Giants & The Pigmy
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Who's Helping You Succeed? And, What *Is* Success?
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ReadWriteReadWriteReadWrite...
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Is Virtual Reality Really "Real" ?
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Do You Talk Back To Books?
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