Was flipping through some files from last year and found this correction I made in the book Spooky Michigan, part of Globe Pequot Press’s Spooky series.
No task was too big for Con Culhane. He even damned the Two-Hearted River so he could use it to drive logs to Lake Superior.
Damn that typo!
These are the kind of mistakes that send a chill up your spine because they’re so easy to miss. I remember spotting this one in my second pass through the book and catching my breath as I realized that I’d missed it on my first go-round. (Refer to the previous entry, “Don’t pass on the second pass.”)
This is also a particularly terrifying mistake because it falls in the category of “accidentally naughty typos.” You’d be surprised how many of these show up in otherwise innocuous text.
And for a copyeditor, that’s spooky!
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Good catch. I literally read that twice before I even saw the typo! That’s why I hire you for these things.
I noticed in another Spooky book that one of the towns on the map was in the wrong place. And that book had been out for a WHILE. Very spooky indeed!
And you might be surprised how often I see “dike” spelled wrong.
Now that’s just goofy!