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Old 10-29-2010, 05:06 PM   #20
M T McGuire
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Originally Posted by ASparrow View Post
My most common critique involve the names of my characters. I write fantasy so I can't very well name them "John" or "Dorothy."
One of the pages I looked at had that... although to be honest a couple of the names were a bit way off. Like you, I write fantasy so I reckon I'm pretty open about what people are called- but one in the excerpt I read had what looked like a silent W at the end which was kind of odd...says she who writes about the K'Barthans and a bloke called The Pan of Hamgee (which has already been criticised)?! Mmm pot, kettle black.

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Originally Posted by markuskane View Post
I had the exact same response. Two mistakes the copy editor missed and one review said "I'm intrigued about the letter, but I'm one who reads the first few pages, not page 99, and you better grab me at the beginning."
Yeh... Doh!

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