Status Updates From The Development: Nine Stories

I thought I was being unique, but no. This is pretty much exactly what I wrote in my own after life instructions: "Funeral arrangements? None, thankee. None? None: Both preferred surcease sans fuss: no funeral, no grave or other marker, no memorial service. You sure of that? Sure: Organs to be harvested for recycling if usable. remains to be cremated—no urn of ashes or ritual scattering, s.v.p.; just ditch the stuff.

And here, both mistakes in one sentence: Here he took the glasses of, as if to signal that the sermon was approaching it’s close. The same mistakes are made in every single usage of OFF or ITS. Every single time. Did Houghton Mifflin simply not hire a copyeditor for this book? "Here he took the glasses of, as if to signal that the sermon was approaching it’s close."

Again and again with the OF when OFF is what is meant. And the IT'S problem continues. What's up, Houghton Mifflin? Quote: Just of the state highway a few miles south of Stratford, Heron Bay Estates is bounded on two irregular sides by branching tidal tributaries of the Matahannock River

This collection of short stories set on MD's Eastern Shore speaks of Stratford College (Washington College in Chestertown). One story speaks of a whopping bequest and the resultant Shakespeare award. Turns out the bequest is real and Washington College does in fact have such an award, though differently named: the "Sophie Kerr Prize, soon to be recognized as the richest undergraduate cash award in the world."

Over and over again, we see the word ITS with an apostrophe. This changes the meaning from the possessive to the contraction of "it is". This occurs multiple times on every page and it's distracting to encounter this error.