A Miniature Annoucement
Added 2024-01-18 13:04:06 +0000 UTCQuick version: There WILL be a chapter tomorrow but there MIGHT not be one on Monday/Tuesday. (80% chance there won't.)
Longer version: Long-term supporters (yeah whoo) will know that every now and then I need to check the book proofs from the publishers. They always try to take my jokes out and I try to put them back in. It's a lot of concentration and detail and also I have to pay attention to the names of clubs and players for the audiobook narrator. (I make a spreadsheet where I have the pronunciations for him to refer to. In some ways it's even more complicated than a fantasy book, I think, plus some people get furious if the names are said wrong.)
Book 3 is short so I might be able to blast through it on Saturday but most likely I'll need Sunday as well. Doing all that plus trying to write at the end is just meh. Bit too much. Oh, and the deadline is pretty tight so I just want to get it out of the way.
THE GOOD NEWS. The Club Legend chapter for tomorrow is going to be the longest chapter in Player Manager history. BOOM. THE LEDGER HAS BEEN BALANCED.
Okay thanks bye.
Comments
There are 5 star ratings in so many walks of life that I wonder if there is such an outsider?
Richard Carling
2024-01-19 10:36:06 +0000 UTCDumbing down books make them less educational and rewarding. As a reader gets into the sense of humour of an author they find more jokes. Both in later works and Easter eggs upon rereading. As a commercial enterprise, there is no profit in rereaders, until reputation kicks in. All the battle is getting a publisher sympathetic to ambition. Critics and award judges are in the 2%.
Richard Carling
2024-01-19 10:32:15 +0000 UTCNot really a break if he is reading a proof copy. I mean you've read his books right? Kidding, but his time is tied up. If they didn't try to sneak in changes rather than give a list of them, he wouldn't have to do this.
Richard Carling
2024-01-19 10:22:02 +0000 UTCYour jokes are vital content. While they may worry that they are too niche, as a reader I worry that most published work is so non-niche that it is bland. Statistics don't write books.
Richard Carling
2024-01-19 10:15:02 +0000 UTCThanks a lot!
Ted Steel
2024-01-19 09:00:25 +0000 UTCSat down and read Dungeon Park from start to finish this evening. Amazing story, i realize that I need more of your content so will probably buy nerves of steel next week. Thank you Ted.
Liam L
2024-01-18 23:09:07 +0000 UTCTake the break Ted! We can wait until next Friday. Looking forward to tomorrow’s self-contained novel!
Greenstar
2024-01-18 14:58:24 +0000 UTCFascinated to see how an outsider sees that kind of thing!
Ted Steel
2024-01-18 13:38:31 +0000 UTCYou mean like that time you referred to RR ratings?
Eltirno
2024-01-18 13:22:39 +0000 UTCGod forbid....
Jake Lewis
2024-01-18 13:20:17 +0000 UTCMax does make a lot of anti Tory/anti government jokes
Andrew Goudie
2024-01-18 13:19:28 +0000 UTCIt's not much, it's mostly things that a proper book editor (which they are) would frown upon, like Max breaking the fourth wall. The kind of thing I remember is the stuff 98% of readers wouldn't even recognise as a joke (so since it's weird why not delete it) but that I think is funny. If one person on RR said 'oh I loved that line' then I'll fight for it. TBH the editors are normally right. I'll find an example over the weekend and post it one day.
Ted Steel
2024-01-18 13:18:44 +0000 UTCAs one of those persnickety people who listens to an audiobook listening for incorrect pronunciations, take all the time you need
Wateesh
2024-01-18 13:07:02 +0000 UTCVery curious what jokes they're taking out, I can't think of any that would warrant it?
Jake Lewis
2024-01-18 13:05:23 +0000 UTC
