Editing is a funny thing. I just looked at my blog from yesterday and couldn't believe my eyes. I had the URL for my website incorrect. I've now changed it but if anyone had read my blog and wanted to go to my website they would have been unable and probably given up. Even when you have read something over and over again take one more look at it, preferably after you have left it for a while. Sometimes our eyes tend to see what we think should be written and not what actually is. When editing the magazine I produce for a voluntary group http://www.icpa.com.au/ I edit/proofread several times before it goes to the printer for a proof copy to be run off. Never once have I received that proof copy and not found very obvious mistakes in it. Even after the final proofing and it goes to print my heart is always in my mouth that I will have missed something else. Sometimes I have but at least I have seen errors in big name magazines as well so I don't feel quite so bad!
As a writer I love books and not just adult books for myself but a whole range of books and I particularly love children's picture books. One of the best I've seen in a while is called 'Benny the Blue Heeler Rides the Four Wheeler' by Lisa Case and illustrated by Michelle Achhammer. It is a book that is so Australian and so relevant to children outside suburbia, which often children's books aren't. I bought a copy of Lisa's book, not because I have children of that age group but just because it is a wonderful book. Do check it out at Lisa's website http://www.liscasebooks.com.au/ Lisa is busy writing book 2. The illustration of Benny at the top left of the page is copyright Michelle Achammer.
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