What's up with Holloway House? Haven't they got a proofreader
they run
their galleys by? On the back cover of the PB edition I just
purchased,
they misspelled Iceberg's first name. Lame. For those of you
who write
professionally, just how does that work? Can you insist on
a
proofreader? I just finished Anna Quindlen's BLACK AND BLUE
and was
horrified by the lamest of typos ("he wined" instead of "he
whined",
missing words in sentences, and the kind of silly errors one
gets if you
rely entirely on spell checkers to catch errors). I think
this is about
more than me being some kind of spelling or control freak. A
misspelled
word creates a speedbump for the reader and interrupts the
flow of the
story or information being shared. It works against a
compelling story
and takes away from the hard work done by the author.
Typos in my emails? Well, you get what you pay for.
Sandra
Who is working on "letting it go."
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