From: Dean Schneider <schneiderd_at_ensworth.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:49:22 -0600

On fact checking:

Several times over the years, I have caught errors--from copy editing to f actual, minor and major--and been able to report them to my editor who then contacts the publisher, and there has been time for the publisher to make changes in the finished copy. Of course this only works if I have read the advanced reader copy well ahead of schedule (which I tend to do), but it's a way for reviewers and writers to--pun intended--be on the same page in th e name of a stronger book. What's distressing is when major problems are ca ught and there's NOT time to correct them, until subsequent editions. Lots of reviewers have that internal voice while reading a really good book and cheering it on, hoping it finishes as well as it has started. Reviewers lov e to celebrate the well-crafted books, but it's painful though necessary to comment on major problems with a book, where the story doesn't work as wel l as it might have. A good reviewer doesn't include negative analyses light heartedly, though I know there are reviewer s out there who too often write with venomous pens (or cantankerous keyboards?).

Dean Schneider Ensworth school Nashville, Tennessee
Received on Sun 15 Nov 2009 07:49:22 PM CST