No one proofread that?

[vilakins]

I went to the doctor yesterday and now have antibiotics; I already feel a bit better. I hope I'm a lot better tomorrow at work. I don't think huge bouts of coughing give a good impression.

I need to take some books back to the library tomorrow. One of them is a Meg Langslow mystery by Donna Andrews. I enjoy these; they're light and funny and often geeky. Meg is a blacksmith who solves crime and has a very eccentric family, and various books have been set at renaissance faires, a fan convention (of a fictional fandom), and a computer games company. :-)

I mention this one because somehow no one proofread the back cover.


A nice front cover. Yes, all the titles in this series have bird-related puns, I don't know why. They're good stories despite that, and said birds do feature.


The back. How did this typo slip by? There aren't any on the book. You'd think they'd check the cover, wouldn't you.

Another of the books is Patrick Rothfuss's The Wise Man's Fear, the sequel to The Name of the Wind. I'm loving this series for its characters, story, humour, adventure, and fascinating world. Just saying.

And I'm picking up another Mary Russell book, yay.

Comments

[corvuscornix]

Ahaha, very myserious indeed! (If it had been in Swedish it might have worked as a pun on the word "mys", suggesting that it is a "nice and cozy" mystery series)

I'm actually about a quarter through The Name of the Wind right now.

[vilakins]

Excellent! Are you enjoying it? I love all the characters (except a certain student) and the accounts of life at a rather different magic university from the usual.

[corvuscornix]

I've only just arrived at the University part, but yes, it's an enjoyable read! Most of all I really admire how fairly the characters are treated, even the really minor ones, and how there seems to be just as many (if not more) decent people than bad ones in this world, without making it seem rose-tinted or naive. OTOH I found the initial bits about the older Kvothe (rather than the story he tells) to have something oddly romantic about them with the whole "stoic retired hero with tragic past" trope, but given how well-written it is in other respects, that's almost an endearing flaw rather than annoying one. :-)

[vilakins]

I find the present time bits rather bleak since the world seems to have gone to hell since Kvothe was young, but it's really what we call a Ripping Yarn: gripping and lots of fun. I think the series might be a long one going by how much we've covered so far, but hey, it's a great ride!

[brewsternorth]

AAAAAAAAAAA.

It took me a moment, admittedly, but I was looking for the typo in somewhere relatively unobtrusive like the praisequotes. NOT ON THE BACK SUBHED.

I can only plead that publishers are usually worried more about the front than the back. Howlers like that generally disappear on reprint.

[vilakins]

Yeah, I was thinking this might have been a short run once someone saw it.

[zoefruitcake]

I'm glad you are feeling better already

[vilakins]

So am I and probably the people I work with too! :-P

[gwendraith]

Hope you feel better once the antibiotics kick in.

Ah, bad typo! Misery for the proof readers ;)

[vilakins]

I'm starting to! :-)

The author can't have been pleased.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Tis a mysery indeed :D

I just finished a course of antibiotics for an infection. Ugh, they don't agree with me, but I'm glad you're getting better.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I don't mind them if I make sure to take them with food. Yogurt is a good way to get the useful bacteria back in your system.

[luinielle.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you're feeling a bit better. Hopefully the antibiotics will quickly kill the infection.

'The Name of the Wind' has been in my library queue for awhile now. I'll hopefully receive it soon.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I hope so!

It's well worth waiting for and the next one is just as good.

[ultrapsychobrat.livejournal.com]

Oh, good a new Meg mysery--uh, Mystery. LOL

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Because they're so not miseries! :-)

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Good, now I hope you will be all right soon!
Hmmm, quite a shame but yes, it happens. Only in this case it is more funny than usual tiny mistakes. (I worked at a publishing house five years:-))

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Was it lots of fun with book perks? :-)

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

More than you can imagine! Even those "big writers" struggled with the grammar a lot and often we were crying with laughter over various nonsense. We used to keep a book with all these things but it was in the time of the Communist ruling, the authors were writing according the rules and so they could published. Here and there we managed to get something really good in an editing plan (all had to be approved by the Communist Party leaders. So...somehow the book disappeared, we thought out director took it, he knew about it but he was a servile knob polisher. What a pity, there were real gems of idiocy!!!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I quite often find mistakes in novels, like dangling participles or the wrong case.

What a pity, and what a humourless party lackey.

[samantha-vimes.livejournal.com]

Remember, any post on the internet correcting a grammatical or typographical error will have one itself.

You might want to delete one of the books in "books books".

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

And done!

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

Am glad to hear you're making some progress.

I love the Meg Langslow mysteries. :) *eyes typo disapprovingly*

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Oh good, another fan! I'm not totally happy about the latest family additions but they're still great, fun light stories.

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

They are fun light stories, yes. :) Hooray for female blacksmiths!

[morzsa.livejournal.com]

That's a funny typo!

I hope you are feeling better soon. I'm just starting a round of antibiotics today.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'm still coughing but already feeling somewhat better. :-)

I hope you're feeling better soon too.

LOL!

[gracewillow.livejournal.com]

Very myserious.

(They should have hired me. I'm a proofreader & copy editor.)

Re: LOL!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I would love to be!

[redscharlach.livejournal.com]

I edit books for a living, and typos are embarrassing but they happen for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes it's a case of "readers see the one thing I failed to correct and not the 3000 things I did correct". Sometimes a designer will make a last-minute tweak and forget to show the page to the editor for checking. Sometimes someone at the printers will accidentally use an old PDF file for the final print run and not a newer, corrected version, and there won't be time or money to reprint. Frankly, it's amazing that it doesn't happen more often!

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

And also it's somehow easier to miss something in a heading than in the text - although it ought to be more conspicuous, because it's bigger, the eye skips over it and focuses on the small continuous text. I always have to make a conscious effort to remember to check the cross-heads.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

[nods] This is why I usually use beta-readers. Maybe this was a small edition then once someone caught it.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Mysery loves company!

OOPS!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Well, the books have a fairly big cast. :-)

[thisbluespirit]

Oh dear. You know I could not see the typo until I saw elmey's comment below. Mind, the connections in my brain aren't working properly at the moment and less so than usual today. Maybe the proof reader was me?

But, oh dear, lol. :-)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I find with my own stories and posts that I see what I expect to see, not what's there, which is why they slip by me. :-P