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Old 10-16-2023, 10:15 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by Kindleing View Post
My wife buys paperback books and she has been complaining bitterly about this for a couple of years. Big-name authors published by big-name publishers seem to have abandoned proof reading, or at least minimized it. It isn't just typos, but runs the gamut of wrong-word use to mixing up characters. In one book the character driving a car changed from one paragraph to the next without stopping the vehicle.
That almost happened to me in my WIP. Fortunately I caught it.
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