![]() ![]() Then I'll send a copy of the book, with a note from me, thanking Mrs. I immediately called my friend and told him about it we decided to do nothing until the next reprint comes out, with the corrections. I searched the remnants of my limited brain and suddenly realized that the letter had come from one of my best friends' mothers. I looked at the address again it sounded awful familiar. But in this case there was only a return address nowhere was there a name. Whenever a reader does something like this, I like to respond with a letter of my own, along with a copy of the book with the corrections made. ![]() ![]() I reviewed her list of "errors," and lo and behold, a couple of them absolutely had to be changed. The reader wrote about how much she loves Faye's books, and she was shocked to find a few typos in one of the books. Well, recently I received a letter that had originally been sent from a reader to Faye Kellerman, who sent it on to us. This could include anything from factual information that an author wants to change to simple misspellings (although we pride ourselves in having many books with zero typos). In addition to updating front and back matter in order to keep everything up to date, I make sure that any text changes that need to be made are indeed made. Part of my responsiblities as mass market managing editor of Ballantine includes handling reprints. ![]()
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