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Old 12-24-2019, 06:42 AM   #33279
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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
I don't know what it is of late, but I'm neck-deep in some major software development/installation/implemenation stuff at my shop, so in-between reading manuals on this stuff and cursing like a sailor repeatedly about it, I've been taking brain-breaks by reading fiction.

And for some bizarre reason, I'm beset and beleaguered by homonym errors. I mean, constantly. I'm not reading one author's books; I'm reading books by 4--count 'em, four--different writers, all of whose books I've mostly enjoyed previously.

But suddenly, I've got "cue" for "queue" and "hardy" for "hearty" and the list goes ON. It's frustrating as hell. I didn't realize that homonym errors were so prevalent, in the first place, but these authors are ALL making enough money now (yes, I looked at sales rank) to pay for a decent proofreader if not a line-editor.

I mean, FFS. If I'm willing to pay $4.99-5.99-$6.99 and up to $7.99 for indy-pubbed books in Kindle format, dammit, the least that they could do is have somebody proof the damn things.

And I don't mean 1-2 per book, either.

{grumble...}

Hitch
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