I’d especially like to thank my two best friends from preschool, who also happen to be my most loyal and honest beta readers: Dave (my best man who never was) and J (check out our blog: JoshAndJ.com).
As an indie author who’s written a few books now, I can’t recommend using an editor enough. There are many different types of editors out there, they are all useful. Beta readers are great—and necessary—but professional editors make a world of difference. Special thanks goes to my story editor, John Paine (www.johnpaine.com). The first version of Idempotency was crap. Insomuch as version two improved upon version one, that improvement is vastly due to John’s efforts and teachings.
Several different copy editors also worked on the final draft. These amazingly patient people helped to clean up my often superfluous word choices, they pointed out Josh’s too-frenetic point of view changes, and they corrected my interminable abuse and misuse of basic grammar rules (I missed that day of school). To them, a big, big thank you.
The best thing about finishing a book is the fact that I get to start a new one! I can’t wait. Maybe I’ll write another crazy existential rant. Or I may return to my zombie series—nothing’s better than killing off a boring character. Or maybe I’ll write the sequel to this book (Nilpotency). Or maybe I’ll just write something else entirely. I’m really not sure yet, but I’m headed down to my den right now to find out.
If you’d like to know what I’m up to, check out my website, JoshuaWrites.com, or follow me on Twitter @jO2shuaWright.
Thanks again for reading.
—Josh
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