Well the ones I validated recently went through very quickly, or at least
the credits for my validation showed up quickly.
Did I ever mention that I love validating your submitions? They are so
easy to validate! All I ever have to do is replace closing quotes with
plain ordinary quotes, replace single quotes with apostrophes, and replace
period space period space period with an elipsis that does not include
spaces. Oh, yes, at times quotes get detached from their proper sentences,
which I know is not always apparent when reading with speech. I am just
fortunate, while editing, and unfortunate while reading, to have something
that makes that apparent.
In case anyone should argue that any of those characters are valid so my
changing them is unnecessary, I will point out that only the changed
versions will appear correctly in braille. :-)
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
Assistive Technology Trainer
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 3:38 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Quick processing of my book
I've definitely noticed a somewhat out of order of book processing. I've had
since the last Marissa's list, I believe 9 books in the admin queue and none
of them have been approved. I'm thinking that Hardy Boys aren't *that*
important, but if books are being approved within 48 hours of submission and
mine were submitted a few weeks ago and have had plenty of time in the admin
queue, what happened to them? I've never had a book disappear on me, so I'm
quite sure they're just a ways down in the stack.
I've got backgup copies of everything so shall resubmit if they drop off
Marissa's list without appearing on the site.
Jake
www.JBrownell.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Pietruk" <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 1:58 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Quick processing of my book
Sarah
Yep! Nancy Drew 81 was validated around June 23 based on the date stamp on my submitted file. And, that was within a day or so of your submitting it.
Either, it seems, books get Gustavo's signature of approval almost immediately or they then tend to languish in a sort of never-never land. Charlene's cookbook was one of those fortunate ones which popped into Gustavo's lap at a time he was apprving books. I wonder perhaps if the administrative pool is sort of one in which the newest titles appear on top. So, the longer the pile doesn't work down to them, the longer they are destined to languish as more work piles on top of it. It won't make you feel any better, but I got a couple of them which are in the same situation as Nancy Drew.
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