Always Been Yours by Alexa Rivers

Author:Alexa Rivers [Rivers, Alexa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Two Roads Press Limited

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GRACE

I woke up buzzing with excitement. It was book release day. I didn’t even manage to wait until I’d gotten out of bed before checking the reviews. A few had already come in from my review team prior to release, and they were all positive, but I’d no doubt spend the entire day obsessively checking and rechecking. I opened a search browser on my phone and typed in the book’s title. As soon as I clicked on the first retailer link, I knew something was wrong. Yes, the early positive reviews were there, but many of the new reviews were one and two stars, dragging the average down in a way that made my stomach drop. How could the difference between the early reviews and these ones possibly be so different?

I scrolled down the page and skimmed through the reviews. The most recent ones cited poor editing, spelling and grammatical errors, and frequent typos. I shook my head in disbelief.

No.

It wasn’t possible. I’d done a last check through the manuscript myself before it had been uploaded. Everything was fine then, and none of my early readers had flagged problems. The book had been through two editors, a proofreader, and several dozen early readers. It simply wasn’t possible that so many errors would have slipped through unnoticed. Something must have gone wrong in the back end of the retailers.

My phone rang. Alice.

I answered.

“Have you seen?” Her tone was panicky. “I’ve been going through everything, but I followed your instructions to the letter. All I can think of is that there was a glitch in the system, and they accidentally sent out an older, unedited version of the story to readers.”

“Damn.” I didn’t usually swear, but times like this called for it. “Have you contacted anyone about it?”

“I’ve typed an email to go to the distributor, but I wanted to check with you before sending it. It should be arriving in your inbox any second now.”

“Thanks.” I switched the phone onto speaker and checked my inbox. A new email from Alice popped up, and I read it quickly. “Yes, send it. The sooner we can get this fixed, the better. Thousands of people preordered that book.”

“I know.” She sounded miserable. “I’m so sorry this happened. We’ll have to contact your readers and let them know we’re dealing with the problem, then we’ll need to arrange to send everyone who ordered the book a free replacement copy and figure out if we can somehow get the negative reviews removed once it’s fixed. Ugh, this is a nightmare.”

“Tell me about it.” This was my third book release since I’d hired Alice as an assistant, and the first two had gone off seamlessly. Waking up to this must have shocked her nearly as much as it did me. “Don’t worry, we’ll get it sorted. Nothing is unfixable.”

She exhaled loudly. “Yeah. I keep telling myself that. I’ll be there as soon as I can. It’ll be easier to work from the computer in the office.”

“Get coffee on the way.

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