Mackey Chandler

About paper books…

When I first started writing, it was pretty awful. Not because the stories were bad, but because I was a terrible student of English. I had no native talent for language, and public schools seem to have a goal to make everyone hate literature and reading, or expressing yourself by writing in a standard, understandable way. 

Silly boy that I am, I take written language as code for speech. When it came to punctuation, I thought putting a comma where I would pause was logical. Really.

I found editors can’t deal with people as grammatically impaired as I am. I did, however, get a great deal of help from the Grammarly program. Slowly, my writing has improved to the point that when I engage Grammarly, it disagrees with me much less often.

Unfortunately, my few paper editions are frozen at a level of grammar and spelling that is now embarrassing to me. Also, the paper editions have provided only .056% of my income from books. I’ve made less than $500 total from them.

Thus, I decided to unpublish all my paper books. I understand there are now formatting options for print software programs. I’ll look into them as a possible way to bring back paper editions, but it isn’t a priority in my life.

Right now, at 78 years old, and being a caretaker for my wife, just continuing to write is time-consuming and challenging enough. Also, I like writing, and formatting is work.

I hope you readers understand.

Mac’ C

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