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I've looked at the chapter.  Review when I've time to write it.

Right now, you'll just have to hold on to the unbalanced ledger unless you can find something you didn't cover already.

Strictly speaking, the machine is a derrick, of which the winch is a part.

When considering prices, it is wise to go back to the meaning of price.  This is the second video in a series.  You will either embrace what it has to say, or abominate it.  There is very little middle ground.

Okay, here's the whole series.

The standard definition of economics is today the study of the allocation of scarce resources.  A fellow named Thomas Sedlecek (if I have spelled that right) in a book the name of which I have forgotten, offers a different definition and a topic survey based on it: That economics begins where Man looks to Man instead of to nature for the satisfaction of needs and wants.

In what season?  In the grainy plains, or on the seaside, or in the mountains?  Wheat, oats, millet, sorghum, buckwheat?

How much work do you want to do, and how much do you need to tell your story or show the world as you mean it to be?  The Potterverse wouldn't be the same without the coinage whose names echo cups, pence, and swords, leaving only wands/rods--the four old suits that survive in the tarot.

But even Rowling didn't redefine the calendar.  That took the Rationalists of French Revolution.

Oh, your calendar will probably be Julian rather than Gregorian.  But you might not even need the actual months.

Gotta' run now.

Oh, and any connection between Merry Tom and Jar-Jar is through a degenerate line, probably involving orcs or trolls.  Tom he is the Master, though blithe he be.  Jar-Jar is a comic and ultimately tragic clown cast deep into the ensemble..

I told you why I created Kirsey.  I needed a hermit.   But you can see his abilities and his alignment.  And you really should get what's happening in the scene with Master Threckesrom.  It's hit-youself-on-the-head-once-you-get-it obvious.  I think you're handicapped by lack of practice with good mystery stories.  Go get the Complete Father Brown and immerse yourself a hundred-plus short setpieces.  Or the Ellery Queen radio plays: The Adventure of the Murdered Moths and other stories.

I've lost track of what we're debating.  Somehow Alda and Behira's Veil are conflated with Master Threckesrom's tea, except it's not his tea, it's the documents he has Kirsey sign ... only there's wine and not tea, and The Family Circus has become the venue ... I'm telling you, it's like this.

Sigh.

The most convoluted of the Ellery Queen mysteries may be The Greek Coffin Mystery.  That is the standard against which you should measure such things.

Mercy even for Pooh Bah!  (Yes, you can google that epigram.)

I just checked.  The For Dummies series has a book on English Grammar.  It has several, actually, but there's a main one with good reviews on Amazon.  There's another book there, The Blue Book of English Grammar and Punctuation, that also looks quite promising.

The only virtue in tearing it apart is the chance to build it better.

Your most prominent flaw is your sentence grammar.  Fixing it is a matter of learning mechanics.  It may not be as much fun as the expressive side, but it will be easier.  Your work has a -lot- of strengths on the expressive side, but people will be distracted from them by the grammar glitchen.

Do your reviewers a favor and start working in the reviewing economy.  We'll understand if  your first reviews feel awkward.  You'll learn what you have to offer, which may be different for each author and maybe for each work.