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Brian Banks 🇨🇦's avatar

As a reader (and writer and editor) in Canada, should I buy the American edition or the UK edition?

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Benjamin Dreyer's avatar

"Why not both?" as the kids say.

I'd...

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...go with the US edition, I guess? It gets the job done. There's also a chapter called "How Not to Write Like a Brit," which we softened somewhat (a lot) for the UK edition, and it might amuse you in its ur-form.

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Steve Kempson's avatar

Oho!

Now my interest is in mid-pique.

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Roberta Gunning's avatar

Sebastian, who

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Benjamin Dreyer's avatar

No, that's part of the lesson.

An actual typo.

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Jonathon GREEN's avatar

Far East books are so beautiful, even one (I) could never know what the text actually said. One of mine (c. 1977) had the picture of a very attractive Japanaese boy on the back. When I asked why, since it was surely not me, I was informed that he was a popular rock star (it was a book of rock'n'roll quotes) and frankly my portrait might possibly lose sales, not augment them.

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Benjamin Dreyer's avatar

Oh dear.

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Linda Epstein's avatar

re: footnote 4

In the winter, when it is Old Fashioned or Vesper season. Duh.

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Larry Horowitz's avatar

belive

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Benjamin Dreyer's avatar

BRAVO!

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Mary Beth Brown's avatar

I may need to order the UK edition for the Fanny Cradock discourse.

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Benjamin Dreyer's avatar

There's also Olivia Colman discourse!

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Benjamin Dreyer's avatar

And now you have to hop back into the piece and take a look at the newly added fourth footnote!

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Mary Beth Brown's avatar

Ha! 😆

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Judy Johnson's avatar

Congrats on earning out in multiple languages!

"Sebastian, whom has drowned..." is not correct.

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Benjamin Dreyer's avatar

Thank you. All the who/whom stuff is part of the lesson. The typo in question is an actual typo.

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Steven K. Homer's avatar

Congratulations! I have been Googling "earning out one's advance," and am led to believe it is kind of a big deal.

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Benjamin Dreyer's avatar

Thank you for the congratulations. Earning out one's advance is always a good thing, because it means among other things that your publisher isn't looking at you like a burdensome money loser. Plus of course the whole putting-more-money-in-one's-own-pocket thing. (And theirs too, of course, which is at least part of the point of being a publisher.) Which is nice.

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What to read if's avatar

You know, you were really selling these to me until you *insisted* on "dog not included." Come on...

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