by Anura Guruge
on June 9, 2022
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As I have often said in the Preface of many of my books, ‘Typo‘ is my middle name. A book of mine WITHOUT a typo (or two, or three …) will feel unauthentic. It is hard to eradicate all typos from a book.
This typo which I discovered, to my chagrin, yesterday is a classic.
In this case I cannot be sure whether it was truly mine or one of those cute auto-correct ones.
Spruce goose for spruce grouse!
The problem is that ‘Spruce Goose‘ is a well known name — the HUGE, wood-based aircraft built by (my hero) ‘Howard Hughes‘. Alas, I was NOT referring to the aircraft.
Alas, I was referring to the bird, the GROUSE & not a goose in this instance.
The irony is that I, in my inimitable manner, spelt it right & WRONG within the space of 12 lines! Hence, why I am ‘Typo’.
It is OK. I have already updated the print & eBook to correct this. SMILE.
