Aha! Gotcha!

It’s that time…

“Got what?” you may inquire, puzzled at my authorial exuberance.

“A continuity error,” I shout, waving my arms about, “caught right there in the act, plain as the nose on Pinocchio’s face, in the Daughter of Blood (The Wall Of Night, Book Three) manuscript.”

Which is, of course, exactly why authors and publishers copyedit manuscripts. Matters of “style”, i.e. comma placement, spelling, and punctuation may all figure, but the really important aspect (imho) is this: the copyedit...