Why editing and proofreading is important
When you're publishing your own work, whether online or on Kindle, there's always a chance that some mistakes will slip though. It's human nature - when you work on something for a while, going the same passages over and ever and editing them to sound just right, you tend to ignore smaller stuff. That is why editors are important. They look at the
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I wanted to thank you for reading my books and caring so much about their quality. Because that's awesome.
I'd always love to write something perfect and then edit it perfectly but obviously, didn't quite get close enough to that standard in this case. The writing goes through my hands, my editor's hands, and then a copy editor's hands but I suspect what happened in this case is that this particular section was more heavily edited because it was a pivotal scene, with changes gone back and forth, and thus leading to the issues you see here.
My total bad, as my editor at Samhain is very, very good, and I obviously should have caught these on the last go-round. No excuse. It goes through my hands last.
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