Many of today's best-selling authors use apalling grammar, misuse words, and give innacurate information in their novels. I can only conclude that no one checks their manuscripts for errors.
Whenever I see "NYT Best selling author" on a cover, the first thing I think is "bad grammar".
One very popular and prolific writer recently had a character get on a train going north from London to go to Cornwall! How long would it have taken her to look at a map and find out that Cornwall is south west of London?
I write novels and, even after five or six revisions, I need someone else to go through the manuscript and find things I've overlooked.
Shouldn't the editor at the publishing company do this, or have a copy editor go over the manuscript before sending it to be typeset?
2006-09-13
03:41:17
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