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This novel is special so I decided that I'd dedicate my first novel to all that helped me. Right at the top, I included my mother, who always thought I had a novel in me somewhere. From now on, I'll put my reviewers on the Acknowledgement page.

I've uploaded the whole shebang to Amazon and they say it will take up to 72 hours for it to appear on their sales pages.

I'm SO excited.

Bill

LOL. No problem at all. The actual novel was posted long ago.

Bill

In my Japanese novel, the first time any dialogue appeared, I mentioned they were speaking Japanese. Then I used English with scattered phrases of Japanese in italics. In spots where they shifted back and forth between the two languages, I had to use the tag you mentioned, but I used it sparingly. It can be done, Dirk. You have to be careful not to overwhelm anyone with "he said in Japanese" tags.

As a secondary thought, if you self-publish through Kindle/Amazon, keep in mind that not all languages (and fonts for those languages) are supported.

Bill

Just a quick note (which will probably cost me $10). We are enjoying ourselves so much we might be out longer than we thought. Loads of things to see and do at [undisclosed location]. I apologize for not reviewing, but this is way too much fun.

Bill

In my Japanese novel, I had an even bigger problem -- vertical characters. For the usual phrases in Japanese, I converted the characters with diacritical marks into their English equivalent (barred O into OO, etc). For others, I did like KDot did, made a JPG image of the letters, scaled them properly to the same as Time New Roman at 14-point, and inserted them into the text once I pasted the chapter into the tNBW editor.

It worked well.

Bill

Hi, Pat and welcome to TNBW. How you handle your stories is pretty much up to you.

If you're like me, I like a complete run-through my entire story before I go back, edit, and repost anything. Others will do as you first suggest, posting a chapter, edit, and post the same chapter. I tried that when I was new, but I found that I posted the same chapter three times before moving on. Each time I posted the chapter, I received ideas that I wanted to meld into my story.  If I hadn't moved on, I would have remained on that first chapter for a long time.

Bill

Two months ago, I had 1200 points, but then started posting two novels. I'm down to 840 or so.

Bill

I've been on Booksie longer than I have been here. I published a lot of my novels and short stories there first. Some are still there, some aren't. The members of Booksie tend to be younger, at least from what I've noticed. Of course, at 75, younger is relative. You get different reviews there than you get here. There is no point system, so no motivation to give lengthy reviews. I get a lot of "Good chapter." entries. Just recently, Sol added the capability for inline commenting.

Bill

Well, shoot. All we did was go to the commissary on base and spend $200. Then we went to Krogers and I bought sushi.

The woodpeckers and sawyers are happily at work next door hammering and sawing lumber for the new house. Really sorry to see that big lot now with a house on it. It's been noting but grass and three wonderfully cooling trees for 25 years. I can't imagine anyone wanting to build a house where they have to spud in a well for water. The nearest sewer is way across the back yards on an easement so I bet that cost them a lot as well. My wife is going to miss the afternoon sun flowing into her workroom now that a house is going to block it.

Loved the donkey tales. My granddad kept donkeys on his farm for plow use. They were the most stubborn animals I'd ever come across.

Bill

Bill

One should never - ever - click on an unfamiliar or random link on any page. Most sites will not use pop-up dialog boxes because most browsers should block them. I didn't get the CYCO pop-up but my browser (Firefox) gave me a "Firefox has blocked a popup on this page" alert.

But, it's gone now anyway.

Bill