A Grueling Search for Tiny Things

The proofreading is finished! It was a grueling and worthwhile task. My team of 3 (my editor, my eagle-eyed friend, Barbara, and myself) have combed proof copies of Immigrant Soldier.

My editor used a time honored method for checking a final proof of material seen too often—she read it backward. My friend read it for the first time, and her skill as a finder of errors was amazing. I sat down and read it as if I was simply your average recreational reader. Between us, we found close to 80 things that needed to be corrected—about 1 correction for every 5 pages of the book.

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