When I read a book the first page, I look at is the page with the date of publishing.
When I’m reading the book, I can easily find mistakes. Missing words in a sentence are easy to spot.
Then there are the misaligned sentences.
Incorrect: What I mean by that is when I read a book and the words
in the sentence are dropped in the middle.
Correct: What I mean by that is when I read a book and the words in the sentence are dropped in the middle.
Before I became an author, I never noticed missing words, dropped sentences, punctuation, or quotation marks. But now I do.
The thing that drives me crazy is the quotation marks in the wrong place.
Wrong: “I am going to the store”.
Correct: “I am going to the store.”
In my book Editing Fiction Mistakes. In this book, it demonstrates the correct and incorrect usage of punctuation.
I am not an expert but when I was teaching a class on book formatting and book publishing, I wrote this book with the continuous mistakes I saw.
Thank you for reading my article. Copyright 2023 Linda Meckler
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