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Bug Hunt 2.0

It never rains, but it pours: I've had a third set of page proofs turn up for checking at the same time! Normally I'd speculate that my editors have been ganging up behind my back and are trying to gaslight me, but as they don't talk to one another (much) I guess it's just a coincidence. Still, the kind of coincidence that drops a month's work on your desk with a two-week deadline is no fun.

This one is the forthcoming (January 2010) paperback edition of "The Jennifer Morgue" from Ace. Luckily they've just taken the DTP files for the trade edition and re-flowed them to fit the smaller page size of the mass market format. This means that if (and only if) there's a blooper in the trade edition, it'll be replicated in the paperback — unless you tell me about it.

If you have a copy of "The Jennifer Morgue" in trade paperback (not the British mass-market paperback, or the hardcover from Golden Gryphon), and spotted any annoying typos or errata, please post them in the comments on this blog entry. That's typos or errata only, not suggestions for how to re-write the novel, or requests for the moon on a stick.

(Format: please type in the line of text with the error in it, and a page number in the hardback — that way I can figure out where to look for it in the paperback page proofs, which have been repaginated and therefore don't have the same page numbers. If you don't give me some text to search on, and a page number, I probably can't find the bug. Also: read through any earlier comments before posting, just in case you're the 56th person to report a given error.)

Deadline: this time next week.

5 Comments

1:

An actual practical reason to re-read it!

2:

Not a typo, but I noticed with a slight glow of satisfaction that in TJM (unlike TAA) the boys from Regents Park are correctly referred to as Two-One SAS...

3:

Ian Fleming put in the mouth of Auric Goldfinger:

"Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action."

4:

page 168, the line beginning with 'for DNA affinity' (toward the bottom of the page): 'and' is not needed. (With it there, I keep looking for the preceding phrase-with-verb.)

5:

The proofs are now done, and this thread is accordingly closed. Thanks, PJE!

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