This is why editors are important

Mar 06, 2013 18:56

I mentioned going through my Kindle and pulling funniest of the typos and comments I've made on it. People seemed to be really into that, so I'll do that this weekend ( Read more... )

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skyknyt March 7 2013, 00:38:25 UTC
fyi nameless author, you can add your character's name to the dictionary to avoid it being autocorrected

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kayay March 14 2013, 21:52:54 UTC
Someone relied on Word's Spellcheck methinks a bit too much.

Was it completely self pubbed or via a publisher? There's a few that do worse than not editing but introduce errors via lazy editing.

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tsaiko March 14 2013, 22:01:13 UTC
I have seen self-published novels that were free of typos and grammar mistakes, and I'm always impressed when I do. I do try to give self-published stuff a bit more leeway because it's hard being your own editor. Especially when I'm paying $0.99 for a 200 page novel.

This one was self-published I think, or may have been published through a vanity press. If there was an editor involved, they should be fired. Health the werewolf was the least of the problems with this book (I didn't finish it, it was that bad). And it was on-sale for much more than $0.99 (though I didn't pay anything for it, thank goodness).

I also have a Harlequin romance ebook where one of the characters changes names half-way through and then changes back to the original name. That one should have been caught by an editor.

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