WAS INSTEAD OF WERE
I'm excited. Kind of.
THE MAN IN THE BOAT is now available in the MuseItUp bookstore - www.MuseItUp.com - and also on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Boat-ebook/dp/B007JW8L94/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331912514&sr=1-1 but it isn't out yet at Barnes and Noble or from Apple. They sometimes take longer to get books up.
Why I'm not excited? I got an advance copy and read it night before last. Not out of vanity. Mainly to make sure the formatting was okay. And it was. Except about 30-40 pages in, I read a sentence and stopped, horrified. Reread it to be sure. Yep. There was a 'was' where a 'were' should have been.
In the beginning, a line editor read the entire manuscript, sent it back to me with changes, I accepted or defended, sent back; she accepted, disputed, sent back; I accepted/refused/defended, sent back. We finally agreed on the 6th or so version which I reread and approved.
The copy editor got it next. Same procedures. Six or seven times through, I reread one last time and approved.
Publisher got it, sent me final galleys. I went through, reread, made a few last corrections, sent back.
So how the heck did that 'was' sneak in instead of the 'were' that should have been there?
I'm hardened to people disapproving of sex scenes. But this! I'm mortified!
Glad I don't have to worry about my old English teachers reading romance.
THE MAN IN THE BOAT is now available in the MuseItUp bookstore - www.MuseItUp.com - and also on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Boat-ebook/dp/B007JW8L94/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331912514&sr=1-1 but it isn't out yet at Barnes and Noble or from Apple. They sometimes take longer to get books up.
Why I'm not excited? I got an advance copy and read it night before last. Not out of vanity. Mainly to make sure the formatting was okay. And it was. Except about 30-40 pages in, I read a sentence and stopped, horrified. Reread it to be sure. Yep. There was a 'was' where a 'were' should have been.
In the beginning, a line editor read the entire manuscript, sent it back to me with changes, I accepted or defended, sent back; she accepted, disputed, sent back; I accepted/refused/defended, sent back. We finally agreed on the 6th or so version which I reread and approved.
The copy editor got it next. Same procedures. Six or seven times through, I reread one last time and approved.
Publisher got it, sent me final galleys. I went through, reread, made a few last corrections, sent back.
So how the heck did that 'was' sneak in instead of the 'were' that should have been there?
I'm hardened to people disapproving of sex scenes. But this! I'm mortified!
Glad I don't have to worry about my old English teachers reading romance.
No comments have been added yet.
