Hold off on editing what you have. I will have a new version for you at the same link tomorrow night or the following day. I re-edited half the darn thing today and hope to complete it tomorrow. Then I need about an hour and a half to typeset it when I’m finished with all that. Scrivener to Word to Vellum… then proofread the generic MOBI version and ultimately upload on Amazon KDP, which has its own hassles. This is at least a week from now. This process took me a month or more to figure out the first time.
Your inputs are critical. Everything I hear alters my ideas about the book’s feel and presentation. You don’t have to tell me anything sophisticated for me to bounce off it in productive ways. Random impressions are just fine. Thanks again and whack me a few more times if you can—it’s helpful.
The book cover seems to be final. I had some nice input about the text on the back cover. And the vote is yellow for CASSANDRA’S. Amazon puts the barcode in the lower right.
I do have posts to send to you, but I’m hoping that my end-of-book struggles adequately entertain you. Each time I go through this, I swear it’s the last time, but then I forget.
Here are three re-edited paragraphs from the Preface. They are not in sequence:
This is a workbook about our world from many different points of view. Most people should read Part One and Part Two, scan what they need from the rest, and skip what they already know. Unfortunately, the portrayal of the bankers in Part 10 is required reading (I wish I had never heard of them). The accounts of my journey are in the mix to give you breathing space away from the savage story. You can also access over sixty podcasts. Stay away from these until you grasp the main points.
I only lightly edited the other authors’ work in this compendium, so it is uneven. Pierre Kory, for example, communicates in the terse style he must use for patient notes. Mercola and his team have the most content, but their writing is not tightly edited, so I recommend skimming his posts. Naomi Wolf has published bestsellers and tells her stories beautifully. Readers will also sense that some authors must be crying as they write.
This was all published at RobertYoho.Substack.com. If you are reading the Cassandra’s Memo ebook, the “SUBSTACK LINK” takes you to the source post and the audio. If you have the print edition, use the QR codes and your cellphone camera to find the Substack article. Cassandra never charged for her warnings, and neither do I. You are welcome to download a free reference copy of the ebook from RobertYohoAuthor.com.
I wrote “savage.” It’s emotionally draining to review current events.
A reader kindly said that Butchered was going viral. I like to think about that, but if it’s a big success, I would hate to see what getting ignored is ha…
I went to a Bitcoin conference. The people were all weird, but everyone was remarkably savvy, friendly, and red pilled (they were orange pilled as well, which means they knew Bitcoin). No jerks and lots of geeks walking around. They had little concern about the price drop. I met Peter McCormack of the What Bitcoin Did podcast, and bought an orange soccer (“football”) shirt.
Anyway, I’ve had enough for one day.
Best
Robert
Robert, I commend you for your determination. I can’t keep up with the updated versions. I have an appointment with Dr. Pierre Kory on December 6th. Hoping he can point me in the right direction. Please don’t overdo it, it’s hard on the body.
Let us know how it goes!
Will do
Ditto on the cover.uD83DuDC4D
The back cover looks fantastic! 🙂
The double dashes before the reviewer initials should be long dashes (em dash).
Iu2019m glad you connected with the Bitcoin community. These sharp folks understand the value of sound money. They see our Matrix more faithfully because they understand what happened on Jekyll Island.
always more edits! thanks for the em dashes advice.
Robert, why don’t you confirm for good, in every single sentence you are writing, that it is true and complete, and then you will not need to correct/change/edit/etc anything anymore? You are not only wasting your time, you are wasting other people’s time=life too!!
You certainly know the saying: garbage in, garbage out, which will bring no end to anything.
Just wonder how on earth, with that ‘garbage strategy’ you got so far, to become an MD, or maybe that’s why you became MD?
Read the first response above. Life is iteration. The info is there, the presentation is what is improving. You don’t have to participate.
I read it and really liked the content and didn’t see that many things. Dont edit it so much it isnt you speaking anymore.
The content was much better than many other books in that it is pretty easy for a non medical person to follow.
I do wish it was fiction tho. Haha.
For what itu2019s worth I heard a Pastor Billy Crone draw the links between Claus Swab and Hitler.. his father worked with Hitler and that really he/they are just using Hitler strategies and values .. remove opposition, control the narrative, control medicine, introduces eugenics with no moral code, transhumanism being the new Arian race and promising to save the environment/world (climate change) that the 4th industrial revolution is really the 4th Reich..
The analogy sticks but who will see it, let alone stand against it..
Defeat the censors any way we can.
I agree with you. I have thought about the similarities between Hitler’s time frame and now ours. Second verse same as the first. Uncanny!!
I highly recommend hiring a professional editor. I This a great organization: https://www.the-efa.org/hiring/
I did this in the initial stages of Butchered, but ultimately it boiled down to my own work.
I’ll take your advice. Butchered was influenced much more by amateur editors than the pros, who touched it fully a year before completion.
There are some really good people in that organization who I am sure would be really excited about your project.
If you work directly with one person, it might help limit the scattered and chaotic feeling you might have when juggling multiple opinions.
An author-editor relationship is just that, a relationship. Ideally, it is a two-way street where two types of expertise meet and work in a mutually respectful partnership.
I absolutely refuse to u201Cwhack you a few timesu201D. We need to praise anyone who tells the truth these days, not punish them. Butchered is a stellar book and was the catalyst for a teacher I work with whou2019s wife was pregnant at the time to opt for far better care, as well as to question the legitimacy of the quackcine recommendations for their infant. I should have added that years ago I was part of determining the overhead rate for federally sponsored research along with Arthur Andersen or KPMG. What I learned from that experience was the amount of straight up lying and data manufacturing involved. I made quite a good living being a part of that harmful profession. I vowed to not be a part of lying or manufacturing data ever again. I fully understand your intent and I am impressed.
I appreciate and am considering this. I’ll communicate with them.
I do not have problems with multiple suggestions. Many people see only one or a few flaws, and I consider everything carefully.
best
I have just found that several of my acquaintances are also authors. Their strategies vary, from self-publishing to quite well supported systems.
Find what works for you; the first three attempts are like your first three attempts to suture, start an I.V. , or obtain an arterial blood gas sample.
Professional editors and proofreaders can help, but do not have your story.
I noted when attempting an L.P. that success was inversely proportional to the square of the number of people standing around watching- Thompson’s Seventh Law.