Comments on: Book Boo-Boos

By: kim h

kim h — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:36:21 +0000

still hot, hope to get an excerpt soon. cant to get my hands on hthese books. yea wtg on rita

By: Leslie

Leslie — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:55:47 +0000

Pat, hairy chests on heroes is another of those “no-gos” for most art departments. They just don’t do them! GRRR!

Which was why I did a BIG old happy dance when I got my cover for Heated Rush and saw the hair on his chest. He looks like a hot sexy MAN not a boy.

As for the back cover–actually, authors almost never have any control whatsoever on that. The editors write those.

By: Pat L.

Pat L. — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:51:53 +0000

I am a reader and read all the Santorinis and never noticed the mistake and same with SEP’s tuna sandwich.

I really hate it when the description is wrong. I mentioned many times on various blogs about a back blurb (cant remember book) saying the hero had a son and in the book he had a daughter or vice versa - cant remember and because of this kept waiting for the child to die and another to be born. Also love it when the hero has a hairy chest and on the cover his chest is clean as a whistle. Another mistake I found was a light being mentioned that was off and then it was on. I had to re-read that passage.

By: Michele

Michele — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:44:13 +0000

I notice things when I read a book and then I have to go back and look up what ever it was only so I know that I’m not going crazy if it says blonde hair then red or whatever it may be. I would never write and complain writing isn’t easy and for many of the authors who have many books you are intitled to a few mishaps here and there. I believe I get my love of reading and writing from my late grandmother who worked for a newspare in Iowa proofreading. after she passed we found book, articles and even cook books that she had found errors in and would fix them which menat she would reed things and proof them as she went.

By: Patricia Cochran

Patricia Cochran — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:21:38 +0000

Hey! I’m a little ol’ gray-haired lady in Texas, but I enjoy looking at choice book covers!
Are you sure of the other ol’ lady’s reason for putting that cover on her fridge? Maybe,
she was just fooling herself as to her reason! LOL!

Pat Cochran

By: Janet H

Janet H — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:09:45 +0000

If I do notice those types of mistakes, it’s just a minor blip. BTW the cover on the fridge with the naked man…

By: Patricia Cochran

Patricia Cochran — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:04:22 +0000

Though I’ve come across boo-boos several times between cover and text, I am more upset
by the numerous errors in spelling. In a former life, I wrote an area news column and did a
lot of editing. I guess that is what causes me to notice typos.!

Pat Cochran

By: Leslie

Leslie — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:37:31 +0000

Too funny that you just read that, Paula! I bet if you’d read the stories in order, you never would have remembered. (at least, that’s what I was counting on! Who ever imagined I’d be the kind of author readers would want to glom the backlist of?

By: Leslie

Leslie — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:36:17 +0000

Okay…road trip to Texas!!

By: Karin

Karin — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:24:49 +0000

Oh, I know all about making mistakes. I hand write all of my research papers before I type them up because, for some reason, having the physical piece of paper with my writing helps me keep track of my thoughts better. The thing is, though, I would notice missing words in the handwritten document as I was typing it up.

As for noticing it in books, I tend to notice typos and continuity problems. When I was reading W.E.B. Griffin’s The Corps series a year and a half ago, I noticed that he changed the first name of one of the secondary characters between the second book and the third book in the series. I was so bothered by it that I had to go back to the first and second books just to make sure it really had changed and I wasn’t just forgetting the details.

I’ve never really blamed anyone for those little discrepancies, though, because they happen to everyone. Sometimes it’s just fun to see them because it’s a reminder that even fantastic authors are human.

By the way, Cher, I’d go with you to Texas since I’m in Colorado as well.