Proof Copy of Valentino Arrived Today

The latest proof copy of Valentino arrived in the mail today.

Looks great so far. You can see the cover on my website.

Of course, I need to read it over very carefully before approving it for publication. This is version five. Every time I think I'm done, I find something else to fix.

In version four I found a typo that had been sitting in the manuscript since 2003 (the year I completed the first draft). In Act Two, Scene 7 (page 76 of the book) Machiavelli said "do demonstrate" instead of "to demonstrate".

I must have read that line a hundred times in the last four years, and missed the typo every time. Yikes. Now I wonder what else I'm missing.

No doubt my readers will tell me once it's published.