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5 minutes ago I got an email with this text:

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Dear

We wanted to let you know that your Kindle Scout nomination Wee was not selected for publication.

We'll notify you when this book becomes available on Amazon.
Let us know if you would prefer not to be notified.

The author, Michael W. Boggs, wanted to make sure you received this thank you message:

“Thank you for your support in my efforts to publish my first novel.”

There are still tons of great, never-before-published books that could use your support! We hope you'll use your nominations to scout the next titles you want to see published.

Scout more books
Regards,
The Kindle Scout Team
 
I got the same notice. :(
 
Keep trying and Follow your dreams
 
I was expecting this. :sad: "Wee" was on the Hot List for only 7 hours. "Savage" was on the Hot List day after day, and didn't get picked. Indeed, I only saw 2 books in the last 5 weeks picked by Kindle Scout, so the odds are long.

I have another novel ready to go. I'm waiting for the cover art and a few dribs & drabs, but it should be posted soon. I'll let you know. :)

After that, it'll be awhile. I have a handful of novels which are only 30% - 60% done.
 
Is there a way to repackage and try again
 
rah said:
Is there a way to repackage and try again
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Naw. I can self publish.
I have another novel lined up, but I have a little bit more to prepare it + I just heard from the artist I really want to do the cover that he won't have time for another couple of weeks. :cry:
 
Zkribbler said:
Very probably.

Amazon sent me a bunch of stuff. I've not yet had a chance to look at it.
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Cool. Let us know when that happens just in case Amazon doesn't send us emails. I'll find a way to buy it when the time comes. :)
 
I've submitted another novel, a high-fantasy detective novel entitled Stonewall Hearth & the Lovelash Locket. Kindle Scout is doing its administrative falderal, but the story should be posted soon. When it is, please nominate me again. :help:

I was not going to announce this until the story was actually posted, but I have a tropical storm closing in. :run: This means a power loss & no internet.

I'm in the process of publishing Wee on Kindle, but for some reason, when I submitted it, the indentation for about 50% of the paragraphs disappeared.:assimilate: I now have to go through the manuscript and manually put them all back in. :badcomp:
 
Zkribbler said:
I've submitted another novel, a high-fantasy detective novel entitled Stonewall Hearth & the Lovelash Locket. Kindle Scout is doing its administrative falderal, but the story should be posted soon. When it is, please nominate me again. :help:

I was not going to announce this until the story was actually posted, but I have a tropical storm closing in. :run: This means a power loss & no internet.

I'm in the process of publishing Wee on Kindle, but for some reason, when I submitted it, the indentation for about 50% of the paragraphs disappeared.:assimilate: I now have to go through the manuscript and manually put them all back in. :badcomp:
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Did you do any more proofreading and editing? The version I read has typos.
 
Valka D'Ur said:
Since you have to reformat the paragraphs, why not fix the typos as you go?
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The program provided is very limited. I can add indentation, one space at time, I can change margins, but there's no other editing allowed. Maybe when I'm done, I can switch back to word.
 
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Typos are one thing that will turn off potential publishers. Anyone looking to get read, should make sure the work looks professional.
 
CurtSibling said:
Typos are one thing that will turn off potential publishers. Anyone looking to get read, should make sure the work looks professional.
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A few typos aren't a big deal. Publisher expect them and have editors on staff to correct them. But when they become so numerous as to brand the author as unprofessional, that indeed is a death knell. :faint:

If Stonewall Hearth is nominated and selected, part of the process is that Kindle will then do a final edit.

Wee is a different matter. I will be the publisher, and it is notoriously hard to proofread one's own work. This may be what Valka is seeing. After dealing with four editors and investing $5,000 in editors' fees, I then added Chapter 1, totally rewrote the end of the novel, and made numerous other changes. I've gone over these new changes many times and saw no errors, but some typos could have survived. :coffee:
 
Zkribbler said:
A few typos aren't a big deal. Publisher expect them and have editors on staff to correct them. But when they become so numerous as to brand the author as unprofessional, that indeed is a death knell. :faint:

If Stonewall Hearth is nominated and selected, part of the process is that Kindle will then do a final edit.

Wee is a different matter. I will be the publisher, and it is notoriously hard to proofread one's own work. This may be what Valka is seeing. After dealing with four editors and investing $5,000 in editors' fees, I then added Chapter 1, totally rewrote the end of the novel, and made numerous other changes. I've gone over these new changes many times and saw no errors, but some typos could have survived. :coffee:
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They did survive.

Note that I'm not saying this because I have anything against the story. I'm not saying it's a bad story, and this has nothing whatsoever to do with the plot, characters, or anything else that's part of the subjective experience of this story. I would not have nominated it if I didn't like it.

But after many years of typing and editing academic papers and publishing SCA newsletters and fanzines - not to mention having some extremely strict English teachers from junior high through college - typos are something I notice like other people notice neon lights flashing in their faces.

I'm talking about the mechanics (as my high school English teacher called it; she made mechanics worth 15% of the grade on our assignments). This means spelling, grammar, punctuation, and the other things that some amateur publishers shrug off because "it's not like I'm being graded on it" but professionals can't shrug off if they want to appear professional.

Some of the stuff I've downloaded to my Kindle (short story anthologies) is riddled with formatting errors and typos and it honestly drives me nuts to see anything like that in material intended for publication. It gives me the impression that the writer/publisher doesn't respect either himself or his readers.

Think of it this way: If you were a tradesman whose job it was to make or fix something and you didn't make sure it was done correctly, would you expect your customers to shrug and say, "That's okay, it's not like anyone's grading you" or would you expect your customers to be annoyed and tell you they want it done over until it's correct?

That's one thing I told my typing clients: If they ever found an error in the finished assignment that was my fault (if I had made a mistake in formatting or spelling, etc.), they should bring it back and I would fix it at no extra charge.
 
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