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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
I suppose that's true, although it's harder to blame King, if only because I can't really expect him to know much about medical diagnostics and technology. So, I can see him making those sorts of stupid goofs ... and that's why they have editors ... right? To check that stuff??
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Assuming the editor dares to do so. Like I said, I don't think any editor will try to correct King.
(Amusingly, a friend once stated the no publisher makes money on King. His contracts are so good that what would ordinarily be publisher profit on the book goes into King's pocket. They publish him for the status of doing so.
Sounds unlikely, but the friend is in a position to know and has no reason to make up the story, and publishers have demonstrated stupidity and incompetence often enough that I can believe they'd think like that.)
And sometimes the editor may simply not know enough to do the correction. There's an old mystery by Dick Francis with a plot revolving around a computer program to handicap horse races. Francis is conscientious, and does careful research. The book made it obvious he did careful research, listened to people who knew about computers and programming, and didn't understand what he was told.
His editor apparently didn't know enough to catch the bloopers, either.
I'm a SysAdmin for a living, so
I noticed, but I'm not sure how many other readers did.
Writers I know tend to belong to writer's groups, and pass around manuscripts for critique to catch that sort of thing. I don't believe Francis has that sort of network to rely on.
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Dennis