So what do you do when your book comes out and you find a tiny little mistake in it? You call your editor and cuss them out and then you hire one that is smarter than you. In order to be a success in this world, you have to surround yourself not only with smart people, but ones smarter than yourself and even with a resounding number of people proofing and editing, things sometimes get missed.
Best selling author Sandra Brown had a character in one of her novels undo the tire cap on a car tire and it let the air out of the tire. Survey says...you can't do it. Air won't come out of the tire simply by removing the cap. She caught it when her readers flooded her with emails. I sent her one telling her to tell them to go pack sand! She sent me a nice email thanking me for making it seem so trivial and humorous. I think I'm going to intentionally make a mistake in all my books just to see if the readers find it and then to the first one who does, I'll refund their money. Beautiful Hardship had a mistake and only two people found it. Child's Wrath now has one also and it was found by my girlfriend; therefore relieving me of any obligation to give a refund; however, I have called her dad and told him to come get her. I'm a perfectionist to the point of obsessive compulsive and I proofed the manuscript a hundred times so for her to find the mistake while reading the book a second time absolutely crushed me. She could've told me that she didn't like bald men at that point or that I was too fat for her tastes; it had the same effect. I fell to the floor and curled up in a ball. My cats comforted me as they one by one came over and nibbled on my ears and pawed at the wrinkles on the back of my neck. So here it is to all my readers, I AM SO SORRY!! I will have the publisher correct the mistake. The biggest problem with that is that the author has to pay the costs to change the printer set. I'm ok with that. Since my girlfriend found it, I'm using her birthday and Christmas money.
What was the mistake? Let's just say that you should never try to proof one manuscript while writing another...you'll get your characters mixed up!