Review: Worth A Read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 9, 2012
We are planning a whole series of short stories, but needed some guidelines about how to tackle them, as previously we've only written a full-length novel, a travel guide and some books of poetry, so we were pleased to find this book on Amazon.While we found the book's content useful, although a little bit repetitious in parts, and it more or less delivered on its promise, we were somewhat surprised by the large number of typos and errors - especially in a book on writing, and especially in such a short book.Sadly, of late, we've come across a number of people who are teaching others how to write and publish books for Kindle, and they almost all chant the same mantra - don't worry about spelling and grammar, just put your book out there.Ultimately, we believe this is going to give self-publishing a bad name (if it doesn't already have one), and may even lead Amazon to tighten up its submission policies, and while we accept that not everybody has the resources of a major publishing house at their disposal, we think authors owe it to their readers to at least subject their books to a reasonable level of proofreading first.Our novel, which is approximately 112,000 words long, was proofread by ourselves, and by a couple of friends, and we'd be surprised if there are anything like the number of errors in that book as there are in the book being reviewed here.  It's really not that hard to do, and while it may take some additional time, we believe that presentation is important.Having said that, this book is easily worth the $0.99 being asked, it's an easy and quick read, and we will probably try a couple of Rick Frazier's other books too.We would have given it 4 stars, but had to knock one star off for the bad English.UPDATE AS AT 10 APRIL 2013: Now that Version 2 of this book has been released, I'm pleased to say that almost all of the bad English has been fixed, so I've changed my rating from 3 stars to 4 stars.