Thread: Just Published my first book on KDP: Vineyard
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Old 12-03-2014, 06:13 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
The most obvious error, and one which needs no resources to fix, was that all occurrences of the possessive pronoun "its" were wrongly spelt "it's". I know that many people have never been formally taught English grammar in school, but I'd strongly recommend buying a decent grammar reference book to avoid such errors. My personal favourite is Fowler's "Modern English Usage".
Oh dear god Harry ... you are RIGHT. I completely and utterly overlooked that particular spelling issue. I am pretty mortified and thankful to you for pointing that out. I have just now gone through every single instance of 'it's' and it's in the whole book and I found a ghastly 32 wrong spellings and in doing so I also found two general typos.

Again thank you for pointing that out. You have never said if you only read the preview or the whole book ? If you bought the book I would be more than happy to email you a copy gratis, including it's glorious new cover Just PM me.
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