[bksvol-discuss] Re: A Light in the Window
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 16:28:31 -0500
Sounds like a great and a challenging book. I did Forrest Gump and Gump and
Company and it was the same way with slang dominating the book, smile.
Congratulations and welcome to the wide world of submitting books.
Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
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Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
Graduate Advisory Council
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to
stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
-- Vance Havner
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From: "Gerald Hovas" <geraldhovas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 4:04 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] A Light in the Window
Ever try to clean up one of Jan Karon's Mitford books? That is, have you
ever tried to clean up a book where the author misspells words and runs
words together on purpose and generally tries to give her English teachers a
conniption or make them roll over in their graves?
In the words of someone from Mitford.
Well, you ain't goin' t' have t' cleanup this one 'cause I've goan ahead and
done it f'r you since you cain't do more'n pea-turkey without needin' to
refer t' th' book.
OK, so I exaggerated a bit by rolling a lot of the things Jan Karon likes to
do into a single sentence, but this will give you an idea why I went ahead
an cleaned up the book. There's also an exert from Mitford's local paper
where she's spelled Coppersmith "Coppersmoth", "Copermoth", and
"Coppersmitj" and a full chapter of correspondence that was printed in
italics.
It's not perfect, but I think it's an Excellent scan.
· I've stripped the headers since they had some problems, and it was easier
to strip them than normalize them.
· I've saved it in a RTF format and verified that all of the page breaks are
still there.
· I've run it through a spell checker looking for obvious scanning problems.
· I've read back through it looking for the types of problems that a spell
checker wouldn't find and to make sure it's all there.
· My wife has verified that the ISBN and copyright information scanned
correctly, and I found the information using Google by searching for the
ISBN.
I think it's ready for acceptance now, but I don't think validating your own
book is a good idea, especially when it's your first submission, which this
is. Hopefully,all this work will make for an easy validation for someone.
Didn't think I would ever get this one finished. To borrow a line from page
192:
I've worked on this stupid book until my eyes are crossing.
Well, that's not exactly correct since I used OpenBook and JAWS to scan and
cleanup the book, but you get the idea. Also, I wouldn't have gone to so
much trouble if I didn't like and recommend the book.
Gerald
-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald Hovas [mailto:geraldhovas@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 2:49 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] SUBMISSION: A Light in the Window
This is the second book in Jan Karon's Mitford series. Books 1, 7, and 8
are already on Bookshare.
MITFORD'S VILLAGE RECTOR, Father Tim, is running scared. He can no longer
deny even to himself), that he's in love with his neighbor, Cynthia
Coppersmith. Cynthia, after all, sees in him a man of warmth and daring, if
only he'll meet her halfway.
But now a wealthy widow is pursuing Father Tim with hot casseroles. And the
mysterious Cousin Meg has moved into the rectory, bag and baggage, not to
mention uninvited.
Abounding with characters both old and new, A Light in the Window compels
readers to do something they treasure: laugh out loud.
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