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Also in Dead to the World, Chow is the one that screwed up with the witch, but later they claim that Clancy killed her.
Meanwhile, Clancy was supposedly killed by the witches, but appears in all the later books--though that may just be a sloppy plot point.

I let a guy that I work with borrow DUD. Before I handed him the book, I said, "Ignore all of the mistakes in the text and just think about the story. CH isn't so much a good writer as she is a good storyteller."

Also, CH is an amazing author/writer: her series our my #1 favorite!!! And as I read others series; they seem to have the same issues with continuity (haven't found much spelling errors either)
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Also in Dead t..."
I totally caught that. With all the editors, how could this happen?





Cary, I actually was an English major and tried to get a job in editorial after graduation. Unfortunately, publishing companies only really focus on those with prior editorial experience, so it's virtually impossible to get your foot in the door without an internship in that area. I was outta luck in that respect! Alas, alack.


My co-worker just finished Dead to the World, book 4, and she said that Clancy was not in book 4 and hasn't been introduced yet.

P179
"Our nest mate Clancy didn't return to us last night..."
"We got a note," Gerald said..."The note said that the witches plan to drain one of our vampires for each day they have to search for Eric."
P218
"They'll do their best to kill us," Chow pointed out. "They only made one attempt at negotiation, and it cost Eric his memory and Clancy his life. They delivered Clancy's clothes to Fangtasia this morning." People glanced away from Eric, embarrassed.
Clancy doesn't get any dialogue in the book though. And I probably noted it because he appears alive in the next book when I remembered them thinking he'd died. I remembered him also because in another book it says Clancy killed the booby-trapped witch when it was actually Chow.

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P179
"Our nest mate Clancy didn't return to us last night..."
"We got a note," Gerald said..."The note said that the witches plan to drain one of our vampires for..."
Thanks, yeah I went looking through the book myself last night and I saw these passages you are refering to. I had noticed on my own that she said Clancy had killed the booby-trapped witch that set the spell off and I knew that was Chow, but now he was dead and brought back to life...lol, omg. Is there any explanation when Clancy reappears?

If he were so drained though...doesn't Bill say in book 1 that a drained vamp could take a decade(s) to heal, and only under supervision of another vamp? Unless Eric donated and 1000 year old blood fixed him up right quick...
All part of why she hired a new continuity editor more than halfway through the series!



Cary, reading them out of order would definitely cause some confusion of events.





I agree, I rarely notice grammatical errors, but do notice errors in continuity.




LOL Michelle! I can not say I blame you, I did the same thing!



"Spell check" works wonders with that. LOL
Too bad theres not a "continuity check"!

Character names...I still remember a scene in one of the Queen Betsy books that had the wrong character name and you're right--my frustration took me right out of the flow! Plus I wanted to correct it, but I don't think the library would have appreciated my efforts!


Hilarious.
I think perhaps the decline has to do with the sheer proliferation of books. In most of the series we read, a new book comes out once a year like clockwork. If an author gets stalled in the writing process, everyone is then pushing to meet deadline because the new book just has to be out within a year of the last. Even though I love not having to wait forever for the next installment, certain areas like spelling and continuity end up suffering!
They would do well trolling around goodreads, finding the person most obsessed with the given series, and handing him/her a galley! We'd all be up for it, I'm sure!
Being a former editor it irks me! Charlaine's books deserve more respect! Ha! Just kidding. I know it must be difficult to catch every little detail...