The Undiscovered Country

Done!

It's finished.

My novella is complete. That includes the cover and even my website.

Gulp.

I haven't sent the manuscript off, yet.

I'm scared.

Once it's sent, that's it. No more modifications. Any mistakes I missed will be permanent.

Gulp.

Wanna know how stressed I am about it? My fingers broke out in eczema, and even a few patches on my face (luckily not so bad as to be noticed by anyone but me).

I know once I send it, I will relax. The longer I keep it on my hard drive, the more I'll worry that I missed something. I can convince myself that I did my absolute best once it's out of my hands. I might even believe my readers will be forgiving if they find a small error here and there.

After all, most readers aren't writers, and won't even notice. Above all, they care about a good story well told.

Once it's on the market I'll find out if I succeeded.

I have one request of you -- if you can spare the time.

I put together a website. It's simple, possibly a bit rough yet. If you could check it out and let me know of any changes you'd like to see I'll be forever grateful: http://www.almarquardt.com

Thank ye!

NOTE: Special thanks to Nada for pointing out a glaring error in my [About Me] page. So glaring in fact, I removed the offending page until I fix it. If you click to that page, you'll get a "404 Not Found" error. Come this evening it should be fixed.

NOTE2: It's fixed! You can now peruse all pages and point out even more glaring errors .