Bob Avey’s 4th Quarter
2018
Newsletter
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Once again I want to express my heartfelt thanks to my loyal
readers, and to everyone, who has signed up for this crazy newsletter. The
growth of the list continues to amaze me. 31 new readers have signed up since
my last newsletter. I truly hope that you find enjoyment and entertainment from
my books and newsletters. In appreciation, instead of the usual
drawing-one-name-from-the-hopper thing for the free autographed copy, I will
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I don’t think I’ve put this in previous newsletters, but if
I have please just skim over. I had something rather unusual happen to me a few
months ago. Here at work, we get a printout calendar that shows this and that.
Anyway, I was attempting to take down the July 2018 calendar when it fell
behind my cubicle wall. When I crawled beneath the desk to retrieve it, I found
a July 2017 calendar in the same spot. Odd enough that an old calendar would be
there, but for it to be the same month, exactly one year apart seemed almost
spooky.
I know it’s been a long time coming, but I am finally
finished with the 4th book in the Detective Elliot series, which
will be titled Identity Theft. It is
now in the editing stages, so it will be a few months before it is ready for
publication. Now, I have to decide if I want to self-publish, or go with a
publisher. Such decisions used to be a no-brainer; self-publishing was a dirty
word. That’s no longer the case. Now, at least with me, it’s a decision of
economics verses technological ability.
After Identity Theft, I plan to go in a whole new direction,
writing the kind of books I originally wanted to write. Stay tuned and together
we’ll see where it goes.
Speaking of writing, most of you know if you’ve written
anything from a letter to a grocery list and then had someone else look it
over, how easy it is to make mistakes, misspellings, and especially grammar
errors. Try it with a 300 to 400 page novel. Anyway, I was browsing the
internet when I came across an advertisement for Editing Services. Editing is
an important and necessary part of writing, but finding a good editor is not as
easy as it seems. For example, the ad I mentioned earlier read like this:
Want to publish a
book? Don’t know where to start?
Stare Here:
I stared for fifteen minutes but nothing happened.
Actually, the ad meant to read: Start Here.
Could you imagine hiring those editors to fine- tune your
300 page manuscript?
May everyone reading this have a happy Thanksgiving and a
blessed and merry Christmas.
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