![]() What a day! I woke up this morning ready to face an AMA on reddit as part of a Women’s Month celebration with my publisher (the thread is ongoing, feel free to drop in). Being angry about them is just not healthy for either you, or fandom. I have found errors in books for which I know absolutely more than5 pairs of eyes went over the copy. One was in a Japanese book – they have typos, too, and the third was not important enough to care about. I wrote one company and privately told them about the typo, in case it can be fixed. There’s no rational basis for assuming either that a company cannot be trusted because a typo occurred OR than there was intent. There are a lot of moving parts in publishing. ![]() THIRD UPDATE: Setting aside editorial choice for the moment – typographic errors are not a personal attack. I have clarified those comments on that forum, if you are interested. SECOND UPDATE: Someone on ANN Forums asked a couple of questions about this post. Thanks to everyone who wrote them politely. We’ll be revising the ebook within the next few weeks to add the cut portions back into the book, and the revision will also be reflected in all future printings of the paperback. Those portions of the text were removed during the editorial process at the time, but we have since changed how we edit these books to make sure important lines are not lost. ![]() Thank you for bringing this to our attention. UPDATE: Seven Seas has responded to this issue:
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