In Honor of Dr. Grammer -

[Liliy]

Okay, so I'm going to be a total geek:

Are the typos in the book deliberate?

After about the third case of "Hhe" (or any other Capital letter + lowercase + rest of word combination) or second .," it makes you wonder if they are or not. My bet is that they are, but I'd really like to know why if that's the case.

*spoiler-sort of*
But on the bright side, I was so enraptured by the book that by the last page I didn't even notice one of the should-have-been-obvious typos until my second read through. "'You may just be the on thing I've done right,' he said." Considering that "on" should probably be a "one." That was the only one actually that I didn't have to reread to double check that it was a typo.

[Kurosen]

Two editors died on me and when I tried to edit the book myself there were 4 hurricanes in two months stopping me. It was very difficult to edit my book or contact my publisher to tell them "Don't print it yet" when there were no phone lines, internet, or power. That said, there are even MORE typos thanks to my printer introducing them when they formated the text. Yay for me.

[lifebecomeslessdefined]

ya i heard some where that there was a comma after every adjective...
but still. as long as its readable

[Kurosen]

You are incorrectly remembering a comment that was, itself, incorrect. It's from a reviewer who was referring to the "Danger: Labels". It's a running gag that he apparently missed entirely.

[Liliy]

Two editors died on me and when I tried to edit the book myself there were 4 hurricanes in two months stopping me. It was very difficult to edit my book or contact my publisher to tell them "Don't print it yet" when there were no phone lines, internet, or power. That said, there are even MORE typos thanks to my printer introducing them when they formated the text. Yay for me.

I remeber hearing about the editors dying while waiting for the book to come out - but on the bright side, since it's mostly a comedy/parody you could always say the typos were deliberate - a unique way to keep the audience entertained/in suspense or something. Or at any rate an ode to the fact that you were having editor problems and make it one big joke. Actually, I thought it was pretty funny after seeing the same one twice - even after all of that, the typos could just be a happy accident!

But in all honesty, I don't think they made a difference - the book was awesome nonetheless.

[Jhonka]

I read the review in which the writer bitched about the colons for a good part of it. I thought it was hilarious.. how could he have managed to miss the joke? :P



And I guess I must point out that you misspelled "grammar" in the thread title. Mmmm, irony.

[Kairamek]

The typos wouldn't have worked as a "Yeah... I did that on purpose... yeah..." kind of thing. Some of them were far to jarring and pulled me out of my literary revelry.

[Liliy]

And I guess I must point out that you misspelled "grammar" in the thread title. Mmmm, irony.

So it is. Ha ha. Never claimed I could spell. It makes sense I missed that one, after fixing the other two typos that I had to edit earlier I had to have forgotten something. Curse the typos! Curse them!