Preparing to send off the manuscript for Emily Hargraves to the publisher, I was encouraged to give it one final read-through. Good idea: I found a typo that neither I nor Spell-check had caught.
Mildred Whytecliff is a minor but important character in the story, a 76-year old nosy neighbor who has lived next door to the Hargraves most of her life. She is introduced to the reader at the beginning of Chapter 7:
Mildred Whytecliff was peering out her kitchen window.
Except I'd left off the “r” in peering—which gave Mildred’s character a whole new slant I never intended.
[First posted: October 1, 2013]
