I received a hard copy yesterday of my recently completed book, and immediately found cause for distress.
Organized into 26 tidy little sections, I’d seen cause at some point to swap “SEVEN” and “EIGHT,” but apparently managed only to retitle the former.
So, the book proceeds painfully—in size 26 point headers—from 5 to 6 to 8 to 8.
Ugh.
It’s not as though I didn’t proof it—it’s just that my eyes no longer saw the big picture. I found a bunch of typos and even corrected some nitpicks alignment issues with a few text frames.
But the obvious misnumbering? The sort of thing you notice the moment you crack open the hard copy of the book for the first time?
Nah, didn’t see that one at all.
As they say, don’t sweat the small stuff. I might add—because you might miss the big stuff.
Taylor Coe 