Comments on: danamaniacs chat! really!

By: Dana

Dana — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:03:42 +0000

Done!

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 28 May 2010 12:04:47 +0000

Would like to have the name removed from the Dec. 3, 2007 comment, please? Thanks!

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:31:56 +0000

What a nice compliment, Grace! Thank you very much.

By: grace

grace — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:31:57 +0000

I do not care what mistakes you make, I was reading some comments. I love all your books, keep writing

By: Sandy

Sandy — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:01:32 +0000

(I think she’s on to me.)

By: Dana

Dana — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:40:39 +0000

And an offer I believe you have made a time or two before. Be careful what you wish for, little girl.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:03:37 +0000

Let’s see….
The book goes through your hands a minimum of 7 times… then editors copyeditors,proofers and typesetters…. I think I could help out by inserting myself into the process after editor and before typesetter, thereby eliminating the copyeditor and the proofer. A sacrifice, I’m sure, but one I’m willing to make.

whaddayathink?

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:01:21 +0000

Hey, Becky–

Bad editing on everyone’s part, starting with me. Kate’s eyes are hazel and were always meant to be changeable in color. Jim was always meant to be 6′4″, the same height as my dad. I don’t know how Mutt got to be half malemute in one of the books, that is so totally wrong and really was not my doing.

There is a long and involved process when it comes to bringing a book into publication. It goes through my hands at least seven times, through the hands of my editor’s at least three, and there is a copyeditor, a typesetter and at least one proofer as well. That’s how many people–five–and a minimum of 13 steps in the process. I die inside everytime one of these errors surfaces, but I’m also always surprised that there aren’t even more of them.

By: Becky

Becky — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:07:22 +0000

I’ve reread most of the Kate Shugak books lately and I’ve noticed some errors. In the first book, Kate’s eyes are brown, while they’re hazel later. In most of the books, Jim Chopin is 6′10″, but in A Taint in the Blood, he is 6′2″. In one book, Mutt is said to be 1/2 malamute and 1/2 husky, when we all know she is 1/2 wolf. How do these mistakes happen?

By: Dana Stabenow » review of prepared for rage in publisher’s weekly

Dana Stabenow » review of prepared for rage in publisher’s weekly — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:27:50 +0000

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