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AtreiyaN7

And in case anyone is curious, she could have (and should have) asked for all hyphenation to be turned off prior to formatting. At this point I can turn it all off, but she has to pay hourly for that because I will then have to readjust the entire book to repair all the changes to the layout/spacing that it will cause (you'd be surprised by how many spacing issues/problems can result from changes like this).
oct. 07 2015 12:31

AtreiyaN7

@puddi: *pat pat* Don't worry, you don't have to read anything that the scary, bad woman who writes scary, bad things writes ever again (probably). I will add one final thing: the bloody book IS justified (it's left-justified alignment specifically, just like you see in every other English-language novel on the planet), so her request is doubly dumb.
oct. 07 2015 12:32

AtreiyaN7

What kind of justification change am I supposed to make that WOULDN'T look stupid at this point? Plain left alignment where the right-hand side remains ragged? Plain right alignment where everything is pushed to the right-hand margin and the left-hand side is now ragged? *headdesk x infinity over this author's stupidity* P.S. A justification change would NEVER resolve her issues with hyphenation. :P
oct. 07 2015 12:32

AtreiyaN7

@jack: OH HELL, THAT IS THE BOOK THAT I KEPT HAVING TO WORK ON FOREVER - THE EXACT ONE YOU DESCRIBED!!!! That stupid f---ing "Take My Breath Away: Orlando Nights" novel. Not only did I get stuck with it for a while, I had to format the revised edition - and then there were the subsequent post-pub edits that led to the current state of affairs. Oh, and all the other De'Lure novels/books that you saw listed (including the execrable "Take My Breath Away Too")...
oct. 06 2015 07:46

Cutlass Jack

Am I reading that badly written blurb correctly? Paw is claiming to be the pen name of a best selling author (who presumably knows how to write?)
And yeah, that was Orlando Nights. I'm sorry you had to read that more than once. I couldn't make it through the blurb.
oct. 06 2015 11:32

AtreiyaN7

@jack: You are reading that blurb correctly - the doofus author wrote it, along with all of the fake reviews in his book. You can tell because of the poor grammar, his general inability to write coherent sentence, AND his squirrelly punctuation. He's either doing a lot of drugs or is totally nuts.
oct. 06 2015 07:09

Cutlass Jack

He used to be my favorite Food Network guy during his Good Eats days. I don't like him so much anymore. He's gotten mean.
oct. 05 2015 02:11

AtreiyaN7

Well, he has gotten crankier, but when you're being a judge on certain shows, I guess you can't exactly be light and fluffy and give everyone a pass (like, say, Paula Abdul might). I do miss the puppets.
oct. 05 2015 08:53

AtreiyaN7

Thank God - I couldn't take another round of edits from this guy. :P
oct. 02 2015 07:56

Puddi III

Now to wait for him to submit the sequel, Plastic Patrick.
oct. 02 2015 11:25

AtreiyaN7

@puddi: lol!
oct. 03 2015 06:46

AtreiyaN7

I told the AR that if this dipstick doesn't listen to me, I'm not going to bother repeating myself or make further efforts to help him. He can then suffer the consequences of looking like an idiot who can't spell (which he deserves because he IS an idiot who can't spell). It's like he has to throw an unnecessary "e" into every word, as if he's trying to be faux British or something.
oct. 01 2015 09:20

Puddi III

lol I know some people who are ESL who keep spelling the same words wrong even after I point them out, but I suppose it's worse if you're trying to get published.
oct. 01 2015 10:30

AtreiyaN7

Yeah, my mom was from China and had a tough time with English. However, this author has literally no excuse for any errors, because he is (as far as I know) a native speaker of English. He's a white dude (saw his pic), so I'm quite sure that he's not from China like my mom was.
oct. 01 2015 10:58

AtreiyaN7

Well, the genre SAID "Romance" in the database. This is actually more like a bad porn video in text form - and yes, one of the characters talks about buying a boat/yacht to reward themselves for, uh, good business? Whatever - it's not helping that the writing, punctuation, grammar, dialogue, and sex scenes are all bad.
sept. 30 2015 02:50

AtreiyaN7

If they're not hookers, then oops - unfortunately, I can't be arsed to actually read more of it than I did due to the dialogue in the sex scenes being so bad that I wanted to vomit.
sept. 30 2015 02:58

Puddi III

lol I guess anyone can be an author huh
sept. 30 2015 01:01

AtreiyaN7

@puddi: Yeah, it's self-publishing, and my company will let anyone who pays for a package take their shot, even if their manuscript is a complete POS. If I were an editor at a mainstream publishing firm, maybe 75% of the crap that I get would be thrown onto a slush pile and would summarily be ignored by me for the rest of my life. Did I mention that this guy's serial-killing ghost/boogeyman is named "Flannel Man"? This is supposed to be a horror novel. *sigh*
sept. 30 2015 01:22

Puddi III

Oh dear.
sept. 30 2015 01:42

TheChris92

Time to finish off Sahelanthropus then
sept. 29 2015 11:39

AtreiyaN7

Hehe. I still need my wireless relay/booster to come in. The signal from the modem in the living room doesn't reach my bedroom, so I pretty much haven't been able to even build a FOB yet. Of course, even when I get the booster, there's no actual guarantee that the PSN won't be flaky - lol.
sept. 29 2015 11:50

AtreiyaN7

I actually almost beat Sahelanthropus on my first try after lots of panicky running around, plus panicky fail driving in a tank (and that APC with the missiles). I ultimately resorted to my machine gun, but I almost thought I was going to break my left stick - lol. I was freaking out, so I kind of kept pressing really hard on the left stick while desperately trying to avoid getting hit by everything.
sept. 29 2015 11:54

AtreiyaN7

This is in reference to that woman who I believe is lying about her qualifications and made false claims in her About the Author section. Yeah, if you're making dumb typos when writing to your rep, your credibility as an alleged professional goes out the window. If this nutball is somehow telling the truth about all the things she said, then the people who hired her and paid her money to write have incredibly low standards.
sept. 28 2015 08:05

Puddi III

Lol wat a dumy tbh,
sept. 29 2015 04:08

AtreiyaN7

IKR?
sept. 29 2015 09:04

AtreiyaN7

I then googled, and I actually found the exact same photo in the cover images folder that was used in an article about the author. The article was from 2013 and apparently confirmed that he was staying on at the Chicago affiliate as a news anchor (what he's done since 2013, I have no idea). I'm just going to say that he's not hard on the eyes, and that if I were in Chicago, I wouldn't mind watching the news on his channel.
sept. 27 2015 09:26

AtreiyaN7

So far, the work seems professional enough. It definitely beats that horror-show manuscript about Liachi, a protagonist who is officially the dumbest and most improbable lawyer on the planet (if you have no idea what I'm talking about, you can refer to my extended synopsis/snark-fest about yesterday's manuscript in my feed). Speaking of which, yesterday's manuscript makes me wish Suits was on - it's about a law firm and has clever dialogue, witty characters, and good acting.
sept. 27 2015 09:34

AtreiyaN7

Now you could argue that this season was, perhaps, a bit muddled and was too much about Harvey's childhood issues surfacing vis-a-vis the Donna situation, but eh, even with what's going on now, it's still ten billion times better than yesterday's manuscript. Now that Harvey has mostly worked that stuff out, I hope we get back to Mike's current situation.
sept. 27 2015 09:36

Puddi III

producers will be lining up to give her more screenplays to write when they read this.
sept. 27 2015 12:59

AtreiyaN7

She claims to be a ghostwriter, a screenwriter, AND a scriptwriter - lololololol x infinity. Yeah, here's your next hitmaker, Hollywood!
sept. 27 2015 01:18

AtreiyaN7

Belated typo fix: "a guy who is apparently" (not "who is apparently"). I was a bit too focused on trying to synopsize that totally wacko plot - oopsie! :P
sept. 27 2015 09:30

AtreiyaN7

Her team had the best name: Battle Bar Galactica. They should really get James Callis to compete at some point, and it would have been awesome if they could have had Six and Baltar on the same team (alas, there seems to be a one-celeb limit to the teams).
sept. 25 2015 10:07

AtreiyaN7

I will just say that it's kind of funny that one of the stories I've had on the back burner touches on a lot of the issues in the game in a different way. This reminds me that maybe I ought to actually finish it one of these days - maybe after MGS5, lol.
sept. 25 2015 07:43

AtreiyaN7

Oh, but back to the game: not a lot of gross-out stuff (although there is this one thing involving eyes and eye-related stuff grosses me out), but it's really good at building dread I think, and there's the mystery of what happened to you and the station. I tend to agree with most of the reviews that it handles, ermm, issues-that-I-can't-talk-about really intelligently for the most part.
sept. 25 2015 07:49

AtreiyaN7

Hate to be vague about it all, but explaining the plot would completely spoil the game, so I'm not really going to say much about it (I mentioned eye-related stuff and how that grosses me out, but I'm 99% sure that won't ruin anything for anyone - probably :P ).
sept. 25 2015 07:51

AtreiyaN7

Oh, it censored that - it was a reference to breasts that goes: "T" "I" "T" "S"
sept. 23 2015 08:06

AtreiyaN7

Yeah, that is the level of this author's writing. Please just shoot me, thanks. That, or I should get Solas to petrify me and write a note saying that I'm permanently excused from further book-design duties due to being a stone statue.
sept. 23 2015 08:07

AtreiyaN7

BTW, this is supposed to be a horror novel, and the author's boogeyman is called "Flannel Man." *headdesk*
sept. 23 2015 08:26

AtreiyaN7

Oh, I just got the author's still-horrible revised manuscript back today. He changed "shuddered" to "rattled" in the sentence that I nominated for Worst Sentence of the Day. It's not an improvement at all, so here's my revision: The howling fall wind rattled against their windows that night.
sept. 22 2015 10:05

AtreiyaN7

I can only work with what I get - don't expect me to instantaneously change something like THAT crap sentence into Ray Bradbury-like prose. :P Anyway, I'm still massively annoyed with the author because A) he didn't follow directions (was supposed to contact us and use a Word copy of the galley proof to work from) and B) he STILL has a gazillion really stupid errors.
sept. 22 2015 10:07

AtreiyaN7

I spent just a few minutes going over the first three pages of Chapter 2, and I promptly found five-plus errors without even trying hard. He actually entered "perspective buyers" when it SHOULD be "prospective buyers." And in my initial notes, I clearly stated that he needed PROFESSIONAL editing (not him doing his own totally fail editing).
sept. 22 2015 10:36