MURDER BY MAGIC is here!
Sep. 23rd, 2004 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanWell, got my copy, and a very handsome beast it is. Go thou and buy several dozen copies. Stories from Misty Lackey, and Sue Krinard, and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kradical, and Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, and many others (20 stories, which makes it, oh, 70 cents per story. Nice pricing, no?).
But... when I went to look through the story, I noted at least two places where needful changes made in the proofs did not make it into the final version.
Normally I'd shrug and go 'oh well.' But these were changes specifically needed to bring the story into line with the novels, and I was assured that they would be made. So while I still love this story (it's "Overrush," which I read at WorldCon), my pleasure has been dulled by annoyance.
I hate that.
Especially since now I feel obligated to go through with my copy of the changes and see what else was not corrected. Grrr. Frustration.
(and yeah, I know, this means that when I do the collection of "Retrievers" stories, I can advertise the corrected text as the "author's preferred edition." Still annoys me now.)
But it's still a cool antho. And the story stands up on its own without the changes (they were mostly timeline things only the author and obsessive fans will note). Can't wait to get my mitts on POWERS OF DETECTION so they can sit side by side on the "Retrievers" shelf. Oy, I can't beleive I just typed that... *sheepish but pleased grin*
kradical, and Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, and many others (20 stories, which makes it, oh, 70 cents per story. Nice pricing, no?). But... when I went to look through the story, I noted at least two places where needful changes made in the proofs did not make it into the final version.
Normally I'd shrug and go 'oh well.' But these were changes specifically needed to bring the story into line with the novels, and I was assured that they would be made. So while I still love this story (it's "Overrush," which I read at WorldCon), my pleasure has been dulled by annoyance.
I hate that.
Especially since now I feel obligated to go through with my copy of the changes and see what else was not corrected. Grrr. Frustration.
(and yeah, I know, this means that when I do the collection of "Retrievers" stories, I can advertise the corrected text as the "author's preferred edition." Still annoys me now.)
But it's still a cool antho. And the story stands up on its own without the changes (they were mostly timeline things only the author and obsessive fans will note). Can't wait to get my mitts on POWERS OF DETECTION so they can sit side by side on the "Retrievers" shelf. Oy, I can't beleive I just typed that... *sheepish but pleased grin*
