publishing

Woman in medieval style clothes frustrated using a magical typewriter with glowing runes — A writer struggles with errors while using a magical typewriter.

My book is being published…and…sob, sob, I found a typo in the blurb! On the back cover! I immediatly had palpitations.

BP reading up. Dizzy…not! But I feel like a dizzy dummy.

So I plunged in, reorganized, revised and sent in corrected files. Kept my fingers crossed.

God forgive my typos… The past three weeks were tough—me busy at getting my first novel published, and sitting at Hubby’s bedside in the hospital for seven days. After eight hours with him, I returned every night to an all too quiet house. Hubby is now waiting for a heart procedure. Fingers crossed, again. I pray he’ll be OK.

Therefore, I suppose I have a reason to have missed that silly capital A.

Anybody out there ever find an obvious typo after publishing?

How did you handle it?

Meanwhile, my book is available for pre-order…don’t know if this “A” blip will cause a little delay in delivery.

Search for River Fork: The Bear in the Storm (series 1 of 2), author J. M. Orise. It is a YA, historical fantasy novel. Setting: fictitious town of River Fork, NH, in a farming and logging community in 1957. The theme is dealing with grief at the loss of a parent. Find it at your favorite book store’s website, and place your pre-order.

After reading, please write and post a review at the bookseller’s website. This author will appreciate it.

J. M. Orise

Yes, I’m really here… 😉

Been writing for a while.

Blogs, that is.

I do have a manuscript for a YA novel that I am interested in publishng as well.

But this is about social media.

I find social media protocols strange. Some give an option, then it really is not what I think it will be.

Two days ago, I clicked on that ‘bell’ located at the top of my WP window. This time it worked! All the other times nothing happened. So I had given up.

Like I said, I clicked it the other day and there was a list of people following me. My Twitter account had notified me I had these followers, but I couldn’t find them in the Twitter followers listing. Perplexing at the time.

Here they are in my WP account. Beautiful!

I experienced an epiphany. Things started to connect. So that is how it comes together. Now to make it work for me.

I did redirect my website to my WP account. It is http://www.jmorise.com . And, I am the one who solves a lot of issues for my hubby’s computer as well as mine. I taught computer science for 20+ years. Therefore, give me a break before judging me. I retired just as social media was coming of age. I was not interested at the time. I was busy painting and writing my MS and fulfilling a whole lot of obligations. Retirement finds me just as busy as when I was employed.

Does anyone else out there find social media difficult to digest?

I’m not talking about posting a picture and requesting likes. That is what I call a scrap-book or a family album.

Comments from like-minded participants as well as likes are my goal.

As I said, I think I got it… .

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Thanks.