Ooops! How can I be so stupid???
Has it ever happened to anyone else? You think everything is o.k, then wham, it's like a kick up the backside? When a reader of your book says, "Well, that was really good, read it quickly and enjoyed it, BUT, a character says something which he wouldn't say and that is, "O.k".
And they're right! A man in medieval times would never say that word as it didn't begin to get used until around early 19th Century in America.
How could I be so blind? How could I miss that? More to the point, how could five proof-readings miss that?????
So, I apologise to all the readers of Echoes so far who may or may not have noticed, it has been rectified.
But it shamed me. I am a professional, or at least, I thought I was...Does this happen to them?
I know in reading a book last year I was appalled at the amount of spelling and grammer mistakes in a published book, but not this historical mistake...I will try harder.
And they're right! A man in medieval times would never say that word as it didn't begin to get used until around early 19th Century in America.
How could I be so blind? How could I miss that? More to the point, how could five proof-readings miss that?????
So, I apologise to all the readers of Echoes so far who may or may not have noticed, it has been rectified.
But it shamed me. I am a professional, or at least, I thought I was...Does this happen to them?
I know in reading a book last year I was appalled at the amount of spelling and grammer mistakes in a published book, but not this historical mistake...I will try harder.
No comments have been added yet.
