Editors!

by Bob Brill
Author, Lancer; Hero of the West

Even the best editors miss things and in my final look see, make sure everything is correct write through I actually found a couple of things my editor missed. And she is good!

It so happens that one of the problems with publishing and especially in today's world of self publishing, it is impossible to catch every mistake. In the days before the Internet and it was in those days "self publishing" was frowned upon (often called vanity publishing), few mistakes made it to final print.

The reason is there were people employed as proof readers, the line below editors. They didn't make a great deal of money but they made enough money for them to lose their jobs when times got tough. When publishing started to fall away so did the jobs and the people holding those jobs were proof readers.

So even though an author writes, rewrites and rewrites again and another person's eyes go through it several times, mistakes will be made. It is inevitable. So we'll do our best but in the end I'm sure when you read "Lancer; Hero of the West, The Prescott Affair" you may find something we missed. I just hope you enjoy it and my goal is for you to ask yourself when you finish reading it; "I just spent $x on this book. Was I disappointed or was it money well spent?" If the answer is you got your money's worth I will be happy and excited.