What It’s All About!

To quote the Imagineer web site:

WELCOME TO IMAGINEER Books.

Imagineer Books is the chosen identity for those involved in all levels of the planning, creation, proofing, development, prepublication, publication, marketing and publicity for each book/eBook written by Steve K Smy. Different members of the team generally fulfill those aspects of the process which they have a particular interest in or liking for. We believe this is a winning formula.

One area we all believe is vital is proofreading! We’ve all had enough of the never ending typographical errors of just about every kind of publication! Especially bad for these, interestingly, are, it seems, the big publishing companies! We promise to do our utmost to exclude such errors from Imagineer Book publications. Of course, we are human, so the odd one might slip through. In that event, we’d love to be informed!

We hope you enjoy all Imagineer Books. We’re happy to hear from readers but please, if you’re one of those sad people with nothing to offer but malicious nonsense, then do find something else to fill your time with.

So why this blog when there’s already a website?

Well it’s quite simple really – updating a web site isn’t quite as simple as blogging.  More importantly, the web site News page will only carry news about the ebooks and definite progress ‘landmarks’.  This blog will be far more generalised, and may even go off-topic entirely!*

Apart from Steve’s ebooks and books, there will be posts about writing, self-publishing, the book/ebook world in general, reviews and interviews.  There will also, from time to time, be short pieces of prose or poetry by Steve.  Hopefully, above all else, you’ll be entertained as well as informed!

If you own an Amazon Kindle, and you wish to do so, you may subscribe to the blog through Amazon, for a small monthly fee.  It is only available for some Kindle models: Kindle, Kindle Touch, Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Keyboard.  You can find the subscription page by searching your usual Amazon site for the ASIN B00BZFWKX4.  Note: An ‘ASIN’ is a unique number assigned by Amazon to each publication.

If you would like to link to us, please contact us.  You can link to either this blog site or our main site.  We are aware of the fact that some sites cannot link to the main site because of restrictions imposed by their hosts.  Unfortunately, there is currently nothing we can do about that.

* The main website News page now includes this blog in a frame!

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67 thoughts on “What It’s All About!”

  2. Great blog! Do you have any tips and hints
    for aspiring writers? I’m hoping to start my own blog soon but I’m a little lost on
    everything. Would you advise starting with a free platform
    like WordPress or go for a paid option? There are
    so many choices out there that I’m completely confused .. Any suggestions? Many thanks!

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    • Thanks Salvatore. The blog contains some observations that may help aspiring writers but I would recommend simply going for it! As to the question of free or paid, I would always recommend free, at least at first! Unless you’re creating a purely commercial blog, and wanting to include things not allowed by the free platforms, there’s very little point in paying for the blog system you decide to use. Of the free platforms, I would always recommend WordPress.com.

      Hope that helps.

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  7. Thanks for the like!
    I look forward to reading more on your blog as well as reading one of your books.
    I love your titles – “Seelie Heiress” intrigues me the most at the moment, I love faeries =) Especially the good ones.

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    • My pleasure Victoria :)
      Thanks :) I do hope that you find the blog interesting and whichever ebook you choose enjoyable ;)
      I spend ages trying to think up titles – most of the time, though I sometimes get an idea for a title and then have to try and figure out the story for it LOL. Seelie Heiress was a really tough one and changed a few times :)

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  9. Hi there! I’m at work browsing your blog from my new iphone! Just wanted to say I love reading through your blog and look forward to all your posts! Keep up the outstanding work!

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  19. Hi Steve, just wanted to say hi, it’s good to meet you :-) I love the professional feel of your website and blog. From what I’ve seen so far you write on genuinely engaging topics and have an easy manner – a real blessing for us readers! :-)
    Keep imagineering, my friend!

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    • Hi Jill,

      Wow! What can I say? Huge thanks, of course! I truly appreciate your kind comments, they mean a very great deal to me. :) You’ve made my day – and made me blush! :)

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  20. It’s amazing how one person can proof a book and find typos and another will find nothing! Sometimes the brain reads what it knows it’s supposed to read and you can miss a typos.

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  21. Hi Steve,
    Thanks for stopping by my blog. I like yours and will be following your interesting topics. I do a lot of book reviews and proof reading for other authors but now I need to get back to my own book and get down to business with the editing. Do you think there is a time to stop editing? I find that each time I read my novel I want to add or change something. It is taking longer to edit than write it!
    Janice

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    • Entirely my pleasure, Janice :) Thank you! God luck with the editing – something I hate doing ;) Personally, I try to go over anything once for the glaring errors, and possible rewrites, again for typos in general, and maybe once more. After that, I convert to ebook and read that, very slowly, in case anything has slipped through. I really don’t like tying up time revisiting when there are so many new things to write about. There’s always the risk of small errors, and you can go on reworking things forever. Eventually, you just have to be strong. You don’t want to risk ending up with something entirely different from the original – or you might as well just have written another book :)

      Steve

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      • Thank you for your input. I agree. I have to make up my mind to get moving with it. I can’t afford an editor. My husband has read it and made suggestions which I have taken and improved more on my own. I will let you know when I complete it and get it published. Thanks for the support.

      • A pleasure :) I’m in the same boat on affording an editor. I have to do it all myself and things do slip through at times, unfortunately. I find that reading what I’ve written in different formats helps, like uploading to my kobo eReader. Even so, I recently got two novelettes into paperback and one of those has been revealed to contain a few problems, which I spotted because I was reading it in paper form! If you have a few trusted friends, in the real world or online, you could try using them as beta readers ;)

        All the best :)

    • Oh wow! Thank you so much, Rachel! :) That’s the second time in a week for that award – definitely super blush time! Would you mind terribly if I mentioned it without obeying all the rules on this occasion? I’ve had to think of nearly thirty fellow bloggers in less than a week, which has strained my poor old brain cells LOL!

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  23. Thank you for visiting my blog, Steve, and ‘following’ it. Hope you continue to enjoy it.
    Must say, I like what I’ve seen of your so far. :-)
    Agree about the need for good proof reading.

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  25. Thanks for reading my recent blogs. I had a problem getting my photos to print with my articles, I you saw some of the blogs without photos, I apologize. I read and enjoyed your blog and will subscribe. I invite you to follow my blog as well. best wishes, beebeesworld

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