More on the first edition of THE GRAVE AND THE FIGURE EIGHT

The reason I had the book republished is that the original firm published it traditionally; that is, without my having to pay any money. However, the price was set at $29,00, much too high to attract readers to a book by a new author.  Furthermore, a friend and I were inexperienced in proofreading such a long book and believed we could catch all errors on our own. Drat! We let too many slip by. Now I use a copy editor, one supplied by the publisher. Drat! Still errors slip by.  Alas, I've learned that no book has been published that is totaly error free.