Comments on: Proofs, galleys, first pages…

By: Glenda Larke

Glenda Larke — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:43:00 +0000

Fingers crossed, Satima…

By: Satima Flavell

Satima Flavell — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:59:00 +0000

The whole darned series will rock, Glenda, typos and all:-) There won’t me many, if any at all, because you have the eye to find them yourself. Sadly, the same cannot be said of all writers and heaven help us, even some editors:-(

By: Jo

Jo — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:44:00 +0000

Thanks for that tip Glenda and I will do that in future if I read a new book.

By: Glenda Larke

Glenda Larke — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:31:00 +0000

I don’t see the book after these errors are tidied up – so if they aren’t done properly, there is nothing I can do until the second print run of the book.

What you can do, Jo, of any book you read, in fact, (as long as you are reading it soon after publication) – you can email the author and say “maybe there was a typo on p 201. Or did you really mean to leave the L out of public?” (Or whatever the mistake is.)

Any sensible author will want to know. They then tell the publisher who enters the correction into the computer copy, ready for the next print run.

By: Jo

Jo — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:14:00 +0000

I hope everyone agrees with you Glenda, I am sure they will. I often wonder, when I read a book, just who made the errors, the author or the typesetter. I have seen some absolutely hilarious ones and some which give me the impression someone doesn’t know their language – I suspect some typist in the publisher’s office for a lot of these kind of mistakes but they may not ever see the galley I suppose.

I often wish I could proof work in advance because I seem to catch such a lot when I do read the book.