Vacation reading

Hah! I thought it might've been you. I squeaked a little when I noticed the +1.

I always get really self-conscious when someone buys it, and I always find more silly mistakes that really have no right to be there a year later. The worst part is that although it mostly reads smoothly now, the reviewers I approached almost a year ago have a version with a ton of errors attributable to only proofreading in the middle of the night (and other first effort faults). The mercy of the situation is that once the year is full, most or all will drop it from the review list. At this point I can only hope it'll quietly fade to obscurity until a proper revisit when a sequel becomes relevant.

Every review helps! Glad you liked it, makes me feel less like a swindler for asking money for it. :D Seriously though, if you liked this one, you'll love the next. I honestly don't regret going the self-pub route, because the amount of guilt for letting SM free in a condition I'm not perfectly satisfied with has been a huge motivator for the current manuscript. The result shows in that it's much more refined, and waking up in panic over a terrible line is less dramatic when it's still sitting on my hard drive.

But, I guess this also includes the lesson that I might not be a great judge of my own work, given at least six people have enjoyed it. Or maybe I'm too hard on the book itself, given that it's purpose really was nothing more than a quick, action-packed vacation read.