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On being proofread

So now the boot is on the other foot. The edits of Three Into One Does Go have at last been completed, and Sparsile have completed the typesetting. So now what purports to be the final version is out for proofreading (by Gerard Hill), one of the most experienced proofreaders in the CIEP.
   He's half way through as I type this and hasn't found an awful lot to mark up, thank goodness. But now I know what it's like to have your own material being scrutinised by someone specifically looking for typos. Eek.
add comment | read comments (0) | 2023-10-29

Ayr Writers CLub (3) - First prize!

I am delighted to report that my entry to the Ayr Writers Club  book review competition won first prize. The adjudicator remarked that it was the stand-out entry and was one of only two that had obviously been properly proofread.
   Allow me to smirk for a moment.
   You can read the competition entry too, which incidentally reports that Adrian Tchaikovsky's City of Last Chances is a thoroughly good read, whether or not you are an SFF fan.
   I won some book tokens. It seems only right to spend them on the sequel to City of Last Chances (intriguingly called House of Open Wounds, which is due out in December.
   In the meantime - if you can't be bothered to read the review, I strongly suggest you read the book.

add comment | read comments (0) | 2023-10-13

The smallest moment

I was amazed to read, in BBC's write-up of the Nobel prize for physics, about the attosecond. Find it here

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66964430

An attosecond to a second is the same as a second to the life of the universe. Wow. As they say nowadays, I just can't.
add comment | read comments (0) | 2023-10-05