Beware the Tipo - Karen Bush
I hate typos. I really do. They irritate me beyond belief, distracting me from what I'm reading and making me itch to pick up a red pen or a highlighter. They seem to stand out from the text, thumbing their little fonty noses at me. Naturally, when I proofread my own stuff I go through it very, very carefully. It annoyed me no end when one publisher airily told me, "Don't you worry about correcting typos. We have a very good team who are very good at dealing with that side of things. They are really hot at picking up typos." Dear Reader, they were not. Despite the fact that I corrected all the typos anyway, they not only ignored them, but just for the hell of it added in some entirely new ones. The one that especially made me froth (apart from the change of surname of a Famous Person in the index) was the change from 'Excerpt from a Diary' to 'Exert from a Diary'. Obviously the 'team' the publisher used was a computer spellch...