Thursday, April 30, 2015

Editor-in-Chief

Harper J is a voracious reader. He inhales books. Presently, he's addicted to the Warriors series by Erin Hunter. This is his Harry Potter, and there are WAY more than seven books. There are five sub-series, and several stand-alone books. He's halfway through the third series.

A couple of months ago, he was reading and found an error. Not spelling or grammatical, but one of the names was wrong. As the cats in the books grow in the clans, their names change. He noticed that one of the names had reverted to the cat's former name. I told him he should email the Editor, so it could be corrected in future prints. We emailed him from my account (since I check my email more frequently than he does), and we heard back from the editor a few days later:


It was so exciting! Harper immediately started looking for (and finding) other errors. I told him the free book was probably a one-shot deal, but he could email the editor from his own account and give it a go. 

His book came in the mail this week:


At the rate he reads these books with distractions like school, and soccer, I calculate he'll finish almost all of the books over summer break.

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