Monday, April 25, 2011

misspelled words

Unfortunately, I don't have the funds at the moment to fix a misspelled word in my paperback book, Chasing Dragons: Vengeance. Hopefully it is the only one. I did fix it in the ebook file though. The word is, and I am embarrassed to admit this, dieing. My spell check on two different programs didn't reveal this slight overlook. But that is only because the word is spelled correctly. For the sentence I used it for, it is not. Dieing or dying. I wrote dieing: to cut, form, or stamp with or as if with a die. I intended (wink, wink) dying: to cease living; become dead; expire. How is it when you proofread something fifty thousand times, you can still miss the most obvious. Ridiculous to the point of mortification. Sorry, about that. And no, I will not tell you where. You will just have to find it yourself. I secretly hope you pass it and wonder where the word could have been.

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