Typos or Gremlins
No matter how carefully I go over the final pages of a book after they've been edited and are now set up for printing, when the book is published, guess what--some glitches have managed to slip through. It's usually a reader who points them out to me. I don't know how it happens. I never just correct the pages on the computer--it's far too easy to miss typos that way. I always print out the galley and go over it carefully. Yes, I find mistakes, mark them and send them back to the publisher. Lately I've been working on my first book that was published, Trail to Glory , long out of print and I got my rights back years ago. My intention is to have it become an e-book with a new title, Indian Paintbrush , the title the publisher didn't like. Remember this books was published by a New York publisher and I am finding oodles of mistakes. (The manuscript was no longer on my computer so I had to send the book to a company that scans a printed book and turns it into ...