Susan Andersen's 'Baby I'm Yours' Typo: 'He Shitted On The Ground'

If any of you bought the iBook edition of romance writer Susan Andersen's latest corset-ripper, "Baby, I'm Yours," delete it immediately! Olaf or Butch or whatever the hero's name is will never seem the same once you read a certain coprophilic typo 300 pages in. Let Susan explain:

I wanted to give you all a head's up on a killer typo in my digital edition of Baby, I'm Yours and apologize for page 293, where it says:

He stiffened for a moment but then she felt his muscles loosen as he shitted on the ground.

Shifted--he SHIFTED! God, I am so appalled, not to mention horrified that anyone would think that's what I wrote. I'd really appreciate it if you would forward this to your romance reading friends just in case they bought the ebook, which is on sale for $2.99 at the moment so has likely been selling even better than usual (trust me, usually that's a good thing). Please assure them that I'm on it and it will be fixed asap.

Did you get that? Susan Andersen is not, she repeats NOT, into the weird stuff. Expect some good old-fashioned stiffening and loosening shortly.

Comments

[Gerry Burnie Author]

10:22 AM on 10/11/2011

Cheer up, Susan. To err is human, and you've probably got the best attention grabber yet.

[DedeCraig]

09:17 AM on 10/03/2011

OMG this is hilarious (not so much for the author) but sure gave me a good laugh xo

[Samuel Smith]

02:31 PM on 09/30/2011

As a professional writer, let me say that I always, always hire a third party proofreader. I write something like 500,000 words a year (5 or 6 books of this size) and proofing costs a penny a word. It's completely absurd that a proofreader misses this, since swear words jump out at you, so I'm throwing my hat in with the "Proofreading by Word Spell Check" crowd..

[Amistad Dollface]

07:39 PM on 09/29/2011

Oh god lol....in a library reading this and laughed so hard I think I disturbed other students.

[Grazieeee]

03:31 PM on 09/29/2011

I laughed SO hard reading this. Oh my gosh

[d jane do]

01:19 PM on 09/29/2011

LMAO! I cracked up so hard, I had tears rolling down my cheek. I'm still chuckling. I have to share this on face book. It's tings like this that brighten an otherwise dullish day. Thanks ;o)

[Tom O]

10:47 AM on 09/14/2011

I'm pretty sure it should be 'shit on the ground,' or 'shat,' not 'shitted,' so if I were she, I'd be horrified at that typo as well.

[d jane do]

01:34 PM on 09/29/2011

Okay. But that's not as funny!

[KadejaLatefah]

07:54 AM on 09/14/2011

don't proof readers need to be able to read (& by read I mena think!) lots of these errors on nook books too!

[d jane do]

01:33 PM on 09/29/2011

Or, use proper uppper-lower casings (sentence frag, I know). In times like these where so many want it fast, want in now, or else move on, is not souprising. Also, many writers self-edit because the cost of professioanal editors. I can tell you this, just when one thinks all is correct, ugh!, another silly error, or typo.

[d jane do]

01:49 PM on 09/29/2011

I just read down and some said editing is done in foreign countries. I would like to add that just because they may know how to read and speak proper English, that does not mean they understand American colloquilisms -- especially in fiction ;)

[calicoerotica]

08:19 PM on 09/13/2011

Shift happens.

[newscott]

04:56 PM on 09/13/2011

Stephen R. Donaldson is terrified of ebooks for this very reason. They are all done in India and nobody seems to proofread them.

[FiredUpRTG]

03:42 PM on 09/13/2011

Proofreaders and copyeditors: extinct species…

[aphextwin07]

01:27 PM on 09/13/2011

hahaha, sounds like a great read... not.

[JessCostello]

12:33 PM on 09/13/2011

Shift hits the fan.

[Thundergeoff]

11:46 AM on 09/13/2011

Maybe he was a little too excited. It happens to the best of us, right?

[Sistagirl Young]

10:58 AM on 09/13/2011

O my GOD. How could there be so many comments about a natural functioning of the body. Though I must admit his timing was off. But the unbelievable fascination about the euphemism for defecation? I guess it's just me. I did comment but man o man when I thought about it I nearly soiled my self. Just kidding. It's amazing what hold our interest. I read something about Arianna and triplets. I tripped. I then said she probalby will use a surrogate anyway. And she talkin' about some new format. If you go to the page in question regularly I would think one would notice. Without being told. But everwhat.