Oh yes. I'm quite familiar with what passing through multiple machines can do to manuscripts. Curley quotes turned into "A" cannot be easily changed back. The first time I saw that, I thought the author was trying to give his fantasy characters an interesting accent.
And pictures. At one point someone at Baen got the brilliant idea that they could have the writer attach any art work they had to the manuscript. I was used to downloading 800KB manuscripts, suddenly I'm looking at ten meg files.
However, I'm a lot more easy going about Newbie errors, having made most of them myself. IIRC, my first submission lacked contact information.
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Date: 2008-10-29 12:19 pm (UTC)And pictures. At one point someone at Baen got the brilliant idea that they could have the writer attach any art work they had to the manuscript. I was used to downloading 800KB manuscripts, suddenly I'm looking at ten meg files.
However, I'm a lot more easy going about Newbie errors, having made most of them myself. IIRC, my first submission lacked contact information.