I want to thank this reader for leaving the above review!!! I also want to ask him not to be harsh on Nick, as he merely edited a text that was already written by someone who is not an A student (me), and Jaime. I also told Jaime to write in her own usual style as well so that the authenticity of her experience would be reflected more, even if it was something of a highly subjective manner. The reason behind the awkward writing style is a) English is not my native language, b) I wanted the information to be as concise and straightforward as possible, and c) I wanted the nature of the text and the book as a whole to reflect the fact that this is merely a breakthrough into what is mostly uncharted magical territory. And truth be told I am glad Nick kept the writing style simple and direct.
There were a couple of books that sold without Nick's editing, so I can only imagine what this reviewer might have thought upon reading that version of the text. And I wouldn't blame him! Nick offered to edit the text only after the book was published and he did so free of charge. He's a dear, and I cannot thank him enough for that! Especially since he edited it on the Solstice instead of doing a rite to Helios in his newly made GD-PGM magical system, or dealing with his own projects, or just lazying around on a nice Sunday.
Anyway, I want to apologize to those readers who bought the initial version of the book in case they were appalled by the writing style! That is usually my style, as I am in no way an erudite or a scholar. I also want to offer them the version edited by Nick for free in case they are interested in reading that as well. And also in case they haven't returned the book by now. Therefore I invite them to send me an email to alex.scaraoschi@gmail.com with a photo of their copy without Nick's name on the cover asking for the pdf version of the manuscript.
I also want to say that the reason we pushed on with the initial manuscript is that Mercury retrograde was drawing near. Initially we had no predetermined deadline, but with a couple of days left until Mercury's retrograde station we asked ourselves whether it would be better to postpone the release of the book until after Mercury goes direct again, publish it during Mercury retrograde, or before the planet's retrograde station. A quick brainstorm and a few divination sessions later and we decided it would be best to publish the book prior to Mercury's retrograde station because the energies prior to that time would allow the book to reach more people. So that made us rush the manuscript and compile the text in the appropriate order so that we'd meet the deadline. Which we did eventually, fully knowing that editing still needs to be done on it. We did not, however, expect for it to have such a positive reception right from the start! (Thank you divination!)
Not only that, but the extremely pretentious KDP requirements for page format were a pain to navigate through, and even with a lot of trial and error, a vast amount of verbal curses, as well as Nick's intervention, the overall layout is still off from what I wanted it to be - thank you KDP!!! Grrrr!
