I've got 3 more EPIC entries left to judge (actually 2 1/2, and boy am I counting!) by Saturday, so there's no time for reading anything else. And I have to say in all honesty, though I've read some interesting stories and a couple of really good books, some of the entries I received have been, well... disappointing in the editing department. By and large, the most points I've taken off have been in regards to really big editing issues, and I've noticed a pattern with them coming from particular publishers (who I won't name). Entire paragraphs repeated one after another, missing words, no punctuation at all, and one entry actually still had someone's critique markup still in it (LOLs and :)'s). Which I find... disappointing and a very poor reflection on the ebook industry. What about people who paid their good hard-earned money to buy books they expected to have been edited? It's just wrong. On so many levels.
Off to read til my eyes bleed,
Piper Denna
Romance is sexy!
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