Finding Unwrapped Sky

I’ve written about the process of writing (and inspiration behind) Unwrapped Sky. You can read it over on Tor UK’s site.

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  1. Mylène Dorias - 29 April, 2014 - 11:15 am #

    Hi there!

    First of all, I want you to know how much I loved your book. The excellent worldbuilding, the characters philosophizing about their position in life, their self-reflection and their overall “grayness” was very well made. Consider me a fan that will follow your works diligently.

    That said, Tor did you a great disfavour with their editing or rather: the lack of it.

    They obviously couldn’t decide whether to name the sunken city Caeli-Enas, Caeli-Enis or (in one case) Caeli-Enad (here’s a few examples: loc. 5408 / 5411 / 5820).
    We are left with jumbled sentences where, clearly the sentence has been rearranged but the remains of the previous version are still partially around and screw up the whole meaning. Unfortunately, I can’t provide an example – I seem to haven’t saved the note I took whilst reading.

    This all makes for a rather jarring read where you perk up because you’re really, really sure this time, that it was Caeli-Enis … only, it wasn’t. The same goes for 2.) it just tears you out of your submersion and –after sorting the jumbled sentence- you take a while to get back in again.

    Can you not clap somebody at Tor on their ears and have them do better?

    Please?

  2. Rjurik - 29 April, 2014 - 11:37 am #

    Hi. Thanks for your feedback and I’m glad you enjoyed the book. Sorry you found problems with the copy-editing. Unfortunately when I went through the final copy I had a serious disc problem in my neck and was on painkillers, so I missed those errors. Hopefully they’ll be corrected next time. My book The Stars Askew – a sequel – should be out about this time next year. And hopefully I won’t be on painkillers this time around. Of course there are proofreaders there too, who should have picked that stuff up. So, apologies again.

  3. Rjurik - 29 April, 2014 - 11:40 am #

    By the way, if you do find any of those errors, do send them through and I’ll keep them for next time – if the book goes into a second run.

  4. Mylène Dorias - 30 April, 2014 - 6:50 am #

    Hi again!

    I’m sorry to read you being on painkillers at that time, I hope you are well again. Also, there’s no need to apologise – mistakes happen; however, I would have expected the editor(s) to pick up on such inconsistencies.

    1.) Caeli-Enis / Caeli-Enas

    Assuming Caeli-Enis is the error, I’ll give you location/page (Kindle edition) – not sure whether Kindle page numbers match paper-book page numbers:
    3024/208
    3546/243
    5014/346
    5821/402

    2.) Jumbled Sentences

    Seeing that I failed to save my note on the Kindle, this will require a complete re-read. Will do. Allow me a couple of weeks for that, please.

    Also, there was a not so favourable review of Unwrapped Sky on tumblr which I couldn’t resist commenting on here: http://jesters-armed.tumblr.com/post/84211176503. At least my handful of followers “knows” now that this is no mediocre book.

  5. Rjurik - 30 April, 2014 - 7:01 am #

    Thanks for the comment on the poor review. That’s really nice of you. There are a few negative reviews out there, but also some very good ones too. I guess that’s just how it goes.

    Thanks for the notes on the typos etc above. I’ll keep those and if there’s a second print run (fingers crossed!) we’ll hopefully change them! It’s quite disappointing, of course.

    And again, so glad you liked the book!

    R

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