Writing Bloopers (or Why Authors Need Editors):

Here are just a few examples of errors I've come across as I edit books:

1. "I used to get all those states in the Mid East mixed up. I couldn't tell the difference between Indiana and Illinois."

2. "A leopard can't change its stripes."

3. "I once thought condoms were dreadful; now I live in one and wouldn't go back to a house."

4. "...it all started when Martin Luther King Jr. nailed the 95 Theses to the door."

5. "The best thing about the mountains in Colorado is that they tell me which way is East."

6. "I prefer intinction for Communion, mostly because people get squeamish about sharing from a common cup."

7. "I smell a fishy rat."

8. [Note to Editor: Where's the verse that says "God helps those who help themselves"?]

9. "It was completely fatal."

10. Naming the villain, a white supremacist, Les White.