I’m wondering about using something like this as the image on my Well-Presented Manuscript cover. Thoughts?

http://dscript.deviantart.com/art/Ring-of-Alphabetical-symbols-Dscript-text-art-349157028

A different approach to the cover. I’m not sure if I like it or not.

https://www.canva.com/design/DABS4Kh_Igo/U1yrztN4tgFBCzPIUSCDiw/view?&utm_content=DABS4Kh_Igo&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=sharebutton&cc_from_uid=UABSyWCr6RI

And now it has a Goodreads page. (It isn’t out yet, I’m just getting things ready.)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25659536-the-well-presented-manuscript

First go at a cover for The Well-Presented Manuscript.

http://csidemedia.com/wellpresentedms/files/2015/06/Well-Presented-MS-cover.jpg

Since I got my first Kindle, I’ve made nearly 7000 notes on 250 books. 

I’ve been going through them finding patterns in the errors (they’re mostly errors) for my Well-Presented Manuscript book. I’ve reached the 1700s. Damn, it’s tedious. 

If you’re subscribed to my Commonly Confused Words email list, there’ll be a big email tonight. I’ve now passed 80 items in total (you can see them, and subscribe, at the link). 

http://csidemedia.com/gryphonclerks/commonly-confused-words/

Common Ridiculous Research Fails

I’m writing a chapter on research for my Well-Presented Manuscript book, and looking for things that writers often get wrong through ignorance.

At the moment I have:

Phases of the moon (multiple moons in the same part of the sky will have the same phase; not everyone knows this, apparently, because they don’t know how moon phases work).

Guns. A revolver is not an automatic, and a rifle is not a shotgun, and they differ in ways that can be important to the story.

Any other examples of things that you see frequently in books that make you roll your eyes?

(Hollywood physics and Hollywood human biology kind of get a genre pass.)