Spell Check

By Mark Giglio

Spellcheck was fun to write. I'm sure all of us at one time has felt a searing opinion from someone who is more interested in being the center of attention at your expense than being truthful or insightful. Most of us are beyond getting into a yelling match with a pompous ass, especially on his or her turf. What can one do? Being mere mortals, not a whole lot, but now if you could conger a little payback, wouldn't you? Of course.Let the cliches fly as our nasty reviewer/critic gets his comeuppances.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Giglio
• Release date: Oct 28, 2015
• ISBN: 9781944642129

Mark Giglio

Mark Giglio is a writer and artist living in San Diego County, California. His education in creative writing and lifelong interest in history bring him to writing the "Alchemist Gift" book series today. From a long line of artists and craftsmen, he has the vocation of Furniture Maker and is the creator of the award-winning Alchemist Series of Art Furniture. On a suggestion he merged his love of writing, history and art and created the novel "Alchemist Gift".

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Spell Check

Mark Giglio

Copyright 2015

ISBN: 9781944642129

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Mary Ellen Wilson for editing, cover design and book interior design.

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Acknowledgements

Appendix

About the Author, Mark Giglio

Alchemist Gift first in the Alchemist Series

Alchemist Gift Art Furniture

Spell Check

After seven weeks, Sybil Wilds finally saw the anticipated email. Her review from Circus, a very expensive, make or break book review outfit finally came. Sybil read articles in all the writing magazines how a favorable Circus review could very well launch her career as an author. Four years of hard work, rising at three AM, drinking countless cups of coffee, writing and rewriting and rewriting again, agonizing over just the right word to use, suffering the frustrations and occasional writers’ block and finally after editing and rewriting still once more, she completed her first novel. Her heart raced as she clicked the message open. For the amount she paid, Sybil was surprised the review was only two short paragraphs.

She expected a glowing review. The review was not glowing. The review was dismissive and mean-spirited. Her novel had many beautiful descriptions and thoughtful and heartfelt passages. Sybil told the story of her ancestor Sarah Wilds, an unfortunate victim of the Salem witch trials.

The reviewer, J. Richards, wasted no time. "Not another witch story, pa-lease. Wilds filled her bubbling caldron with awkward sentences, a plot so full of holes it sank to the bottom of her boiling brew, and a narrative cursed with one cliché after another. If it weren't for the historical timeline,