[bksvol-discuss] Re: What is the main concern these days?
- From: "Valerie Maples" <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:21:48 -0600
I am like you, Shelley, although I have nowhere near your credits. I have
been here maybe about 4 or 5 months and have about 50 books under my belt,
almost 50/50. I do best to work in stages and break up huge jobs in pieces.
Take care!
Valerie
Currently scanning My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House
Ally's Busy Day
A Turkey for Thanksgiving
Santa Claus The World's Number One Toy Expert
who do I talk to
Currently proofing:
Ten Days To Self-Esteem
Shanghaied to China
Everything Dog: What Kids Really Want To Know About Dogs
Stories Behind the Greatest Traditions of Christmas
More Stories Behind the Best Loved Songs Of Christmas
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> Behalf Of Shelley L. Rhodes
> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 8:48 PM
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: What is the main concern these days?
>
> Smile,
>
> As a submitter with almost 1200 books on the site, I readily admit that
the
> kids books get done sooner, they are well, shorter, and not so complicated
> and well easy to edit and proof, and well did I mention shorter, smile.
>
> But that doesn't mean that the adult books don't get done, smile.
>
> I like to edit and get ready seven or eight or even nine books at once, so
> when a part gets difficult I can move onto a different part until I am
ready
> to go back and attack it, smile.
>
> Am working on right now, in no particular order, and is not all on this
> Braillenote
>
> Speaking for Spot: Being Your Dog's Advocate
> Eastern Great Lakes Lighthouses
> Great Lakes Shipwrecks and Survivals
> Complete Idiot's Guide to the Labrador Retriever
> Complete idiot's Guide to Sewing
> The Purls of Lutra
> The Lion's Share
> Do Pharmacists Sell Farms?
>
>
> And along with those some kids books thrown into to ease up on the
> challenges. Each of those above books poses formatting challenges. They
> will get done, eventually, smile. Need time. Besides, when I was laid up
> with the broken ankle had lots of time for reading and editing, am now
back
> to work full time.
>
> Also those are not all the books I am working on, I might put one of those
> down for a while work on another and then go back to it. Smile. I do the
> same with knitting, have at the moment three projects going and one in the
> planning stage, and one when I get the right loom to start.
>
>
>
> Shelley L. Rhodes, VRT
>
> Guide dogs for the Blind Alumni Association
> www.guidedogs.com
>
> Reading a book is like rewriting it for yourself. You bring to a novel,
> anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your
history
> and you read it in your own terms. -Angela Carter, novelist and journalist
> (1940-1992)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike and Lori Castner" <mandlcastner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 9:18 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: What is the main concern these days?
>
>
> > It depends on what the scanners and proofers want. If they are in a
mood
> > for children'
> > 's books, that's what we get. The mix of books coming in is like weather
> > in Michigan: wait five minutes.
> > Mike
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Melissa Smith" <mdsmith25@xxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 9:32 AM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: What is the main concern these days?
> >
> >
> >> I've noticed a strong emphasis on children's books as well. This is
> >> wonderful, so long as it isn't at the expense of books for us adults,
> >> too.
> >>
> >> Melissa
> >>
> >>
> >> robert tweedy wrote:
> >>> I am just wondering about bookshare policy of submitted books. Taking
a
> >>> look at the cue, it looks like children's books which is okay but what
> >>> about books that are just for pleasure.
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