Advice appreciated

[HellsGal]

Hi

I am a novelist with a website/ blog. I have written a trilogy, one book is published and the other two will be published.

My question is this: I have included samples of the novels on my website but the text has not yet been edited or proofread by a third party. The text may contain minor errors but I want to advertise the books as soon as possible.

Would you recommend taking down the pages until after editing and proofreading or leaving them up, risking mistakes but advertising my work.

Thanks!

Typos or errors would put me off a lot to be honest. It could mean I would decide not to read it at all...depending on how bad it read unedited.
So I would maybe advertise the plot like the blurb on a book, but not share unedited work.

I'd take them down personally. It wouldn't appeal to me as a reader if there were too many mistakes and I wouldn't take you seriously. I would assume you'd been writing to deadlines and weren't really interested in the final product, basically if you can't be bothered to work on it I can't be bothered to read it type thing.

Sorry that's sounds really harsh, I wasn't referring to you specifically just any author iyswim. Good luck!

I’m assuming you’re self-published. I would definitely get your samples checked over first, if only for a second opinion. I’d actually get an agency to check everything to have to make sure you’ve self-selected
your strongest samples. Good luck.

Thanks for the speedy replies, I am off to edit my website :-)