I’ve just finished Forge Of Heaven by C J Cherryh. It was a rough beginning, as witness my spelling rant earlier, but after the editors got their act together, it settled down into the usual fine read I’ve come to expect from her. Before going on, I should note that I have met and talked […]

It appears my earlier rant about the spelling in Forge of Heaven was premature. After a shaky 50 pages or so, it’s settled down, and I haven’t been jarred out of the story by language issues since. More on Cherryh in general and this book in particular later (probably tomorrow).

This thought occured to me as I was reading Forge Of Heaven by C J Cherryh. I’m finding an annoying spelling error every dozen pages or so. And they all share a similar pattern: the substitution of one correctly-spelled, but wrong, word for the correct one. So far I’ve run into “what” (should have been […]

Teresa Nielsen Hayden points to an EBay auction that is almost heart-rending. Somebody who obviously has some trouble with self-editing is selling a manuscript, hoping to hit the Big Time financially. So far it appears he wants $150K(US), and the best offer he’s received as of the writing of this is a negative $698US (IOW, […]