Picture them like your kindly old great-aunt who is always patting your shoulder with her soft, wizened hand and saying, “You should put on a sweater, dear, or you’ll catch a chill.” The Clearly-Better-Than-Yous Maybe they genuinely think you can fix it. However, I think people who aren’t aware of how that affects you, as an author who wants your book to be as good as it can be, mean well, most of the time. Pointing out typos requires a little bit of chutzpah. It tends to sting a little bit more, though, when someone else finds your slip-up first.
If you’ve realized your book that’s out on Amazon has a typo, or worse, received one of those Kindle notifications that someone else has found a typo in your book, consider it a badge of writing experience. The good news is there are typos in almost all books, and neither traditional nor self-published books can escape the scourge of fat fingers and screen blindness. Has it happened to you? This Happens to Quite Literally Everyone The embarrassment of it makes my teeth hot.
It’s like I was caught with toilet paper on my shoe, or a booger hanging someplace it shouldn’t.
(If you’re a sick weirdo like me, you’re welcome.)īut when someone catches one of my typos, especially if it’s in a professional document out in the world making money, it’s not a good feeling. It was (is) Mary Higgins Clark’s memoir Kitchen Privileges, I was about thirteen years old, and the typo in question was “nickle.”Īnyway, I would grow up to begin my post-college career as a professional proofreader working for a large health insurance company, and catching all kinds of typos in my day job was immensely satisfying. I can still remember the first time I found a typo in a book.
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