Warning about galleys/page proofs

I got my author copies of Sorceress of Faith yesterday, the cover is as gorgeous for real as online...anyway the first thing I did was check something I'd wanted changed in the page proofs/galleys to make sure it had been fixed. It hadn't been.

So I checked other changes made in the galleys. They were fine.

No, I'm not going to tell you what I changed because I'm hoping no one will notice. If they do, I'll address it later.

Now there were several things I should have done to make sure this change went through.

I should have let my editor know it was a very important change to me.

Secondly, now that I look at the galleys (scanned/pdf-ed and emailed), I should have realized that that particular chapter ended at the very last line on a page. That means the deleting of the two words I wanted and adding a bit more explanation (about 3 sentences) could throw off everything and the page count after that...if I didn't delete the same amount somewhere in the chapter. Which I would have done. Shoot.

There were more typos than I liked, too, but that's life. Please note that red spine should really be red spinel (a ruby like gem) don't know how that got missed, but it did, twice.

Still, I am hoping you all see fit to buy Sorceress and that you enjoy it. I like the touches of humor and hope they don't only appeal to me. ;) I particularly like the animal companion, as always. Oh, and Sinafin, the magical shape-shifting entity.

You all know my favorite book is the one just published, right? And the one I hate the most is the one I'm writing? Yes, indeed, Sorceress is a good story. I worked very hard on it.

Love to all,
May all your manuscripts be clean.
Robin