SO WOT ABOUT ALL THEM BOOKS?!

In this blog I am featuring The Minco Diaries: A Homeless Man Comes Home because I recently reread it and was blessed by it all over again, But in re-reading it I decided to follow the advice of a relative and eliminate the numerous and unnecessary parentheses. This required rewriting a number of small revisions (but none to the plot). I also added chapter titles. But this brings me to say I have been going over most of my books over the past two years plus. I've been revising them all and republishing them as later editions. I have felt compelled to do this in order to make them my very best and to help them read well. You're probably thinking, "Well, why didn't he do that in the first place?" One reason is because I was born and still am a very impatient man, to my cost! Another reason is more practical: you cannot obtain a proof edition from Kindle Direct Publishing without publishing the book. So if the book isn't ready yet, you have to go back and unpublish the book until you have worked through at least 3 proof read-throughs. That's no excuse of course, and I did usually read three proofs of each book. I probably shouldn't compare myself with J. R. R. Tolkien, but he was famous for re-editing and revising his books repeatedly right up to the end of his life. You can see this for yourself by comparing an early and a later edition of The Hobbit, for instance. Maybe I'm like that. So! What I owe every reader is a big apology. I apologize for not being more careful, diligent, and patient in the initial publication of my books. But anyway, I have made good what should have been done at the first going back six years or so with some of the books. And though amazon.com is far from perfect (especially since they ceased being the platform for Parler) they do at least make it easy to modify the published works of any author. So! Get your copy of Minco Diaries here, and learn how you too can go home again: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1977844898?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

LBC