Dear Naomi Novik,

[blamebrampton]

I am still hugely enjoying the Temeraire books, but please, for the love of tiny bunnies, hire an actual editor to proofread your novels! The typos! They burn!

(I was doing well at ignoring them until we reached the Nemean region, which is in Ancient Greece, not New South Wales. It was rightly the Nepean earlier. Betas are for fanfic, Naomi. I'm sure you've earned enough to pay for a good editor by now!)

Must dash, plot twist has just occurred and I only have time for another hundred pages before bed.

Much love,

Brammers

Comments

[tomatoe18.livejournal.com]

Which publisher? I can't believe there are typos! Del Rey and HarperCollins are supposedly good with providing editors for their authors!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Harper, Voyager imprint. And there have been several howlers in each of the volumes I can recall, alas. Though not as many as I found in my cheap 1960s Agatha Christie paperback on the weekend ;-) But that was very quickly and manually typeset, so we can forgive it more, I think.

[tomatoe18.livejournal.com]

Which book and page is that typo on Nemean region located? I want to compare it with the Del Rey version. (Yes, I have too much time on my hands.)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Book 6, and I am afraid I cannot tell you what page, but it is when they are first moving out of Sydney with the other dragons. The correct Nepean comes earlier during one of Macarthur's visits to them in the Sydney covert.

[alex-s9.livejournal.com]

Oh bugger, you've got one more volume published than I do.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

It's v new out, days in Oz, weeks in the US, so expect it soon!

[alex-s9.livejournal.com]

We've got a date (2010, not very sepcific) and a cover design. I betting somewhere in November.