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Originally Posted by Michael J Hunt
Tulagi - a big danger for writers is thinking they know something - maybe something they heard years before that they've taken for granted ever since. They pop it into a novel and - bingo - someone takes great delight in pointing out their error in a review. At least yours was spotted before it was too late. Ian Fleming made that sort of mistake, I think about a type of hand-gun; when an expert wrote to him pointing out the error, he recruited him for advice for his later books.
MJ
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Well yes, this is exactly what I meant. Luckily for me, he's an eagle eye reader, and as my friend, not at all shy about telling me what he found. I am very happy with his contribution and wrote him into the acknowledgments.