tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983687699975451453.post7049802904832865189..comments2024-01-02T16:42:15.732-05:00Comments on Redlines and Deadlines: Fact or Fiction?ECPI Editorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00569261288668237013noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983687699975451453.post-64949299797913396602011-09-29T22:41:24.746-04:002011-09-29T22:41:24.746-04:00Sadly, I found a terrible mistake in a book by one...Sadly, I found a terrible mistake in a book by one of my favorite erotic fiction authors. The story relies a bit on genetics and the science of artificial insemination, and in one passage the author describes a process of sorting "sperm with double X chromosomes" from "sperm with both X and Y chromosomes". I was absolutely horrified to see this - 5 minutes on Google will show anybody that each sperm contributes only one X OR Y to a baby, while the other X comes from the mother. It didn't completely ruin the book for me - luckily, this author is otherwise amazing - but I was surprised, annoyed, and disappointed that no one caught this before publication.Aerinahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00693851402618945912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983687699975451453.post-47773389709977643422011-09-18T22:28:45.942-04:002011-09-18T22:28:45.942-04:00It wasn't a romance, but it was a novel. The a...It wasn't a romance, but it was a novel. The author had written about paddy fields in Tibet. Dah! It's too cold up there for rice, they grow barley as their staple. <br /><br />Maybe most people reading the book wouldn't know, but it blew something for me.I then wondered whether the descriptions of the other places were true or not too. It would have been a simple matter for the author to have checked.Tahlia Newlandhttp://tahlianewland.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983687699975451453.post-49196571351637314052011-09-17T14:57:21.969-04:002011-09-17T14:57:21.969-04:00My pet peeve is when a fictional character writes ...My pet peeve is when a fictional character writes a book (which only seems to take a couple of weeks) and that book gets published and becomes a bestseller within weeks. Just to up the peeve factor the book is then turned into a film, and just a few weeks after the book is published - the film is out!<br /><br />You would think authors would really know better!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983687699975451453.post-40212838753512029312011-09-17T06:23:30.055-04:002011-09-17T06:23:30.055-04:00I read a book where the murder-mystery all revolve...I read a book where the murder-mystery all revolved round a mobile phone text. It was set at a time when mobiles were in their infancy and the size of bricks, but the author had teenagers using them - and impoverished ones at that. At the end of the book, she'd put in a comment saying - she knew mobiles weren't in wide use at the time but for the purposes of making the book more up to date, she'd included them.<br />What???<br />Since the story involved one of the characters spending years and years in prison with the story starting after he came out - I think it was cheating to do what she did and I'd never read another book by her. I did wonder if after it had been published, someone had pointed the fact out and that caveat had been added later. She's a well known author but that was a step too far.Barbara Elsborghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15825994197656747262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983687699975451453.post-88602094194084453172011-09-16T16:40:12.631-04:002011-09-16T16:40:12.631-04:00As a scientifically-minded person, it frustrates m...As a scientifically-minded person, it frustrates me beyond belief when an author gets something incorrect but uses that "fact" as a major part of the story line. Even more than that, I can't stand when something is presented as scientific in a paranormal story but it's written off as being "too complicated" or "just a mystery." It makes me feel like either the writer doesn't understand it enough to describe it (just making it sound very convenient), or they think I'm too dumb to understand it.Renee Silvanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13869871627499932672noreply@blogger.com