Gremlins that Get into Manuscripts

Recently, I received the draft copy of the galley for my next Rocky Bluff P.D. crime novel, No Bells, from my publisher.

While I was going over it sentence by sentence, I was horrified to find so many errors. Not typos, but out and out errors. Now this manuscript had been read by my critique group, chapter by chapter. I'd gone over each chapter, made all the necessary corrections and additions.

When I was done, I ran a Word spell and grammar check and made all those corrections.

Then I printed out the whole thing again and went over it before I sent it off to the publisher.

Now, I've got it back and spent a whole day going over it carefully. The spelling was fine, but my goodness, the other kinds of errors. It made me wonder if I'd sent out a prior version of the manuscript instead of the one I'd corrected.

Or, as the title of the blog suggests, there are gremlins hiding out there in cyberspace just waiting to jump into a manuscript as it's traveling to its destination. Yep, I bet that's exactly what happened. What do you think?

In any case, it's gone off again. When the galley proof comes back, I hope the gremlins aren't around to do their dirty work.

Marilyn aka F. M. Meredith