Tell Again Tuesday Inaccuracy
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Pet Peeves – A Horse of a Different Color
By Nancy Gideon
Today we insecure folk address not our own perceived failings, but look toward the objects of our own annoyances – our pet peeves when reading/writing/editing. I have to look no farther than a multiple NY Times bestseller who in her sexy western historical changed the heroine’s horse from a stallion to a gelding, from a roan to a horse of a different color all while galloping the span of two chapters. And then unzipped the hero decades before that convenient access was invented.
Inaccuracy, thy name is my pet peeve!
When I wrote my first published novel back in the mid-’80s, it was a historical in Regency garb, printed by a major New York house (with a 2nd printing, no less). Avenues for research were the local library, and deets were scarce. There were no special interest loops, no blogs devoted to topics, no Google Search. You were on your own to thumb through musty tomes in hopes of catching errors before they reached reader’s always discerning eyes. Your one saving grace was . . .
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