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December 18, 2004
Revenge of the Italicized V
I've just been wrapping up this semester. I finished my papers on Monday and spent most of last week grading papers -- and now that it's the weekend I'm going to be grading final exams.
Yesterday I read the first review of my book, Stray Dog of Anime, that actually appeared in print. The review ran in the December 2004 issue of Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, a publication of the American Library Association. Overall it was very positive, calling the book "lucid [and] well-researched" and "an engaging treatment." In the end, the review says that the book is recommended for "[a]ll collections supporting film studies or contemporary Japanese culture." This is the kind of review I like to read!
One of the few downsides to the review revisits something I had thought was behind me; it mentions that "a typesetting glitch results in the glaring omission of about 50 occurrences of the lower-case italicized 'v.'" I've explained this story to many people, but I don't think I ever did so here on my blog. When I got my first copies of the book earlier this summer I was esctatic until I saw that none of the italicized 'v's had printed. I called my editor at Palgrave really quickly and we determined that the printer had messed up somehow. (I'm still trying to figure that one out.) Since it was the printer's fault, they recycled all of the copies that had been printed so far and re-printed the entire run complete with italicized 'v's. I had thought that the only messed-up copies still out there were the ones in my posession.
I had thought that this issue was over, but judging from this review, I guess some of the publicity copies contained the error as well. Sigh.
Posted by brianruh at December 18, 2004 08:21 AM