Don Coffin

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• Colin commented on Where Have All the Women Gone?
  Unfortunately for proof reading, I really enjoyed your book and raced through it pretty quickly on holiday. I'm afraid I didn't take notes for corrections. The most common issue for me was what I perceived as missing words, rather than misspellings or homonyms. As for structural oddities, SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS Aisha's brother believes that the new interns are MI/Corps infiltrators, but that's not mentioned at all at the time of Aisha and Rama's return to Nevermore. SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS I didn't mean to offend with my comment....
• Judith Tarr commented on Where Have All the Women Gone?
  Readers like to score points by snarking at external aspects such as proofreading and editing. Generally authors grit their teeth and endure, but here, it points to one of the theses of my post, which is what women's work cannot be praised unreservedly. It must be diminished in some way. Your post hit a number of popular diminishment points: assumption of bad or no editing, accusation of bad or no proofreading, dismissal of publisher. The fact it was more thoroughly edited and more extensively revised and rewritten than all but a handful of my major-publisher publications, and has fewer errors...
• Colin commented on Where Have All the Women Gone?
  For what it's worth, I have praised your work repeatedly and enthusiastically to friends and family over the last week without mentioning my concerns about copy-editing or editing. I think my first comment here annoyed you, and I think I understand why. I apologise for that comment and for my misunderstandings within it. I absolutely did not intend to denigrate yourself or Book View Cafe and I am sorry that you felt/feel like I did. I will endeavour to be more careful in my expression and will try to spot unconscious bias in my judgements of women authors. I would...
• Colin commented on Where Have All the Women Gone?
  "felt/feel like I did" Meant "like you did"....
• Judith Tarr commented on Where Have All the Women Gone?
  Thank you. I'm really glad you like the book. In a ms. of almost 150K words, revised multiple times and heavily rewritten three times (the editor is a stone-hearted bitch and I love her and curse her in equal measure), a continuity glitch may happen. Or there may be a loose end that gets tied up in a sequel. :) You missed a bigger one: what happened to the gang at Starsend. But that's definitely a driver for the next book. Along with SPOILER and EXCISED FOR SPOILERIFICITY and REDACTED....