A big mistake, to be cruising along and not realize the road ends in a cliff dive into water.
That segues pretty naturally into this week's topic at the SFF Seven: "Looking Back: Your first book's (published or not) most cringe-worthy gaffe."
The gaffe I *still* cringe over in one of my very early books is actually an inadvertent typo that made it into the published book. This was a traditionally published book, too, an erotic romance I did with Carina Press, that went through multiple layers of editing, copy-editing and proofreading. This is on top of the fact that I turn in pretty clean copy overall. Usually mistakes stand out to me like they're in red font. I even went back to my original draft to see if I really did that, convinced that someone along the way had introduced the error.
Nope. All my fault.
And nobody caught it.
EXCEPT THE VERY FIRST PERSON TO REVIEW THE FREAKING THING.
*sigh*
That's why my book, SAPPHIRE, from 2011 has this line in it:
"She was like a baby heroine addict..."
Heroine versus heroin. Alas.
