Er·ra·ta Function: noun
Etymology: Latin, plural of erratum
: a list of errors

Why the heck am I doing this? No writer in their right mind would ever go and publically post a list of every mistake in their printed book.

Well, I'm not in my right mind, I guess (as is evidenced in my stories). I figure, why hide from them? They're fixed now and will be in the next printing. I'm human. I screw up. The people I asked to proofread? Also human. Crap happens. That's just part of the process. So here's the "buglist" for the first book. Some are actually typos, while others are just me being a whiny perfectionist jerk.

Besides, this entire project is about collaboration. We collaborated to make this book, so it only makes sense that I post the errors as they are found, right? Hey, make a scavenger hunt of it! Find them all yourself! It'll be FUN.

(Note: If you just can't handle having a book with typoes, feel free to return your first edition book for a new edition. You pay to ship it to me, I'll pay to ship the new one back to you. And no, I'm not joking.)

Version 1.0 (First Printing):

Book printed and released.

Version 1.1 (Second Printing):

Corrections:

(NOTE: Like I said, only some of these are legitimate typoes. MOST of them are just me having a stick up my butt upon hindsight and seeing the book in print. So don't blame my test readers, they did a GREAT job!)

Page ii (introduction):
- Dash wrapped to new line. Looks like booty. Fixed.
- made "Oprah's" possessive (thanks, NotTheDoctor).

Page 2:
- "it" - capitalization
- hyphens become dashes. This is a total nitpick thing. I hate hyphens.

Page 8:
- Added "USSB" for clarity's sake (since the name DirecTV didn't exist in 1996)

Page 16:
- Triscuits misspelled

Page 22:
-Space: "Joe! " fixed. Why was there a space after the ! in the first place? Maybe I shouldn't have slept during grammar class.

Page 26:
- dash fixed

Page 27:
- added "I continued" for clarity after "You had plenty of space to stop."
- added "as he" to "choked and cried"

Page 29:
- changed "media coverage and book deals" to "glory", because when I wrote the story, the thought of a book deal was silly. Now that I have one out, it's even sillier, and I feel really stupid having it in there.

Page 39:
- hyphen to dash. Get ready, you're going to see this "bug" a LOT.

Page 42:
- added comma to "We're not the bad guys here"

Page 43:
- worst error in the entire history of my doing anything. Look at the page, think about which chapter you're reading, and read the chapter heading. God... This is why working at 3 in the morning is a bad idea.
- hyphen to dash, wrapped to next line
- capital "L" in leaving removed

Page 49:
- changed to "vapors that filled the room"

Page 53:
- changed "scaring" to "scarfing". Believe it or not, I actually MEANT to use "scaring", because in my house when I was a kid, for whatever reason, the term "scaring" was used to describe wolfing down food. "Scare some rolls, Joe!" etc. But I realized that the world != my house and it sounds stupid. (Thanks Darkwaters)

Page 80:
- huge gaping space for no reason.
- took out line break between two Mike quotes.

Page 82:
- capital "S" in shut taken out
- added some description to "barf on you" to make it clearer (making barf clear. Quite the feat).

Page 84:
- capital "A" in ass removed

Page 85:
- capital "G" in game removed
- clarified scraping on the sidewalk a bit
- changed "I-85 Theater" to "Starlight Theater on I-85" because that's it's name, and the other way just degrades it. It's a great little drive-in, and definitely worth visiting. And how would you know what to look for when you go to visit it (now that i've suggested you do so) if you didn't know the name? SEE? It had to be done.

Page 86:
- capital "Y" in "you" taken out

Page 87:
- changed ! to ? because she was asking a question, not shouting "PEACOCK IS IT!!!" at me. Had she done that, I would have just left right then and spared myself the pain and humiliation that evening brought me.

Page 96:
- Capitalized "Y" in "you" because it was the start of a new sentence. I swear, I really need to enroll in night classes for general English.

Page 107:
- Capitalized "S" in "she"

Page 114:
- hyphen to dash magic occured.

Page 115:
- more hyphen to dash changeroo crap. God, that really bugs me.
- added "your" to "in little fantasy world" to make it actually make sense

Page 120, 123, 124 (x4), 125 (x2)
- hypen OBLITERATED! New leader, Mr. Dash, installed. (collected them all into one bug, since I just plain don't feel like typing the pages over and over)

Page 126:
- M.I.A. missing it's little dots
- hyphen to dash presto changeo (x2)

Page 129:
- changed "the reason it's not an hour penalty" to "the reason it's not TWO hours" because "hour penalty" makes it sound like she'd be there in 1 hour instead of 1.5 hours, which is not what she was saying. She was saying "you were humorous, which knocked .5 an hour off your penalty, which would have made the total time 2 hours instead of 1.5 hours." Makes sense, eh?

Page 130:
- stupid fucking hyphens.

Page 131:
- two hyphens met their demise.
- changed to "Mr. Rusty" since he was calling me rusty, and that wasn't clear before
- "You sure you're up to testing tonight?" is a question. I ended it with a ! which isn't right. Damn me.

Page 132:
- two hyphens. One backspace key. Put them together - MAGIC

Page 133:
- changed "a year" to "two years" because I was trying to explain we'd been rigorously practicing for a year solid, and before that, I'd just practiced a little. I'd been in judo almost 2 years at that point, opting to pay the fee to work out at GSU after I left college.
- FOUR HYPHENS. IT'S MADNESS. Seriously, I don't drink - how the hell could this happen? How can I be so friggin sloppy?

Page 134:
- bet you can't guess (hyphens to dashes)

Page 135:
- removed "like" from "he's bleeding" because I was trying to emphasize the surfer boy slang Randy used, but it just looks stupid on the page.
- changed all instances of improperly capitalized "R" in "rings"
- another fucking hyphen. That does it - i'm ripping that key off my keyboard.

Page 136:
- hyphen.

Page 138:
- hyphen x2
- changed "their" to "her" because I didn't mean to make it an ambiguous non-genderized pronoun.

Page 139:
- wrapping issues from last page
- 2 more of MY FAVORITE PUNCTUATION EVER, the hyphens, changed to dashes

Page 140:
-changed "times" to "time" cause "times" sounds wierd. It didn't when I wrote it, but it does now. Go figure.

Page 142:
- while "how much totally and utterly in love" might make sense to me, it doesn't make sense to others, so "much" is gone.

Page 143:
- what has one arm, no legs, no torso, no head and constantly annoys me? The hyphen.

Page 144:
- now this is a change. I put a dash where a hyphen should be. Wierd.

Page 147:
- changed to "There's practically nothing I won't do with you guys" (thanks Darkwaters)

Page 149:
- took out "then" after "I have a question" because it's kinda redundant, even though it is something I WOULD say.
- If I ever write a sci-fi novel featuring an evil organization, I'm totally naming it H.Y.P.H.E.N.
- removed comma from ellipse, cause man, that's just not right.

Page 150:
- added the word "red" to "string of text" because I intended to contrast the blue of the page with the red of the text. If assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups, then intention has to be the aunt.
- Gimmie an "H"! Gimmie a "Y"! Gimmie a break with these fucking hyphens!

Page 153:
- hyphen Page 154:
- Yet another instance of someone yelling a question to me excitedly (or at least, that's how the punctuation makes it look)

Page 155:
- line wrap issue, dash ends up on the next line

Page 157:
- line wrap issue (x2), dash ends up on the next line

Page 158:
- replaced dash with ellipse (cause I'm using too many dashes)

Page 160:
- clarified my time of awakening

Page 162:
- Ok, stop me if you've heard this one - a hyphen and a dash go into a bar...

Page 163:
- capital "Y" on "yes sir, just one moment"

Page 165:
- Two hyphens walk into a bar. The dash was smart enough to duck.

Page 166:
- couple of caps issues on "You'd... Uh... You might want to see this"

Page 170:
- clarified that it was my Joe Pecsi IMPRESSION that was off and not my actual Joe Pesci (which remains right on track)

Page 172:
- crazy space before a dash which ends a broken quote (x2)
- changed to "good to go" (thanks Darkwaters)

Page 180:
- THREE hyphens hiding, two misspellings, and a endquote facing the wrong wayyyyyyyyyyy

Page 181:
- somehow, I created an ellipse with only two dots.
- caps on "it's something with the audio itself"

Page 182:
- changed double quotes for types of windows to single quotes (x2)

Page 183:
- "After a moments' analysis" sounds odd. Changed to "After a moment of analysis"

Page 189:
- line wrap issue, dash ends up on the next line

Page 191:
"Opened Can of Tuna in Walter's Locker Incident", extra space deleted (thanks Darkwaters)

Page 208:
-"mighty" missing a 'y'. How did I miss this???

Page 209:
- "About" capitalized

Page 258:
- wierd spacing on a dash