Crossing the T’s and Dotting the I’s

When I sent what I believed to be a clean, mistake-free copy of my manuscript to a Ritchie Boy who had promised to write me a review, I was amazed when he found not only some German language that needed correction, but a few other small errors.

I conveyed my distress to my editor, and she sent me the following discouraging reply. “We will find more errors in the PDF and more errors in the paperback proof and then cringe when we find errors in the real book. I’m such a perfectionist, it doesn’t comfort me to know that even traditional publishers who use 20 different people for editing/reading/proofing, know there is a 10% margin of error.”

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