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…and in a bookstore, no less.   Mari Kurisato found Oath listening to recorder music (those musicians down below) at a Recorder Faire in The Tattered Cover bookstore  in Denver, Colorado:

Photo courtesy Mari Kurasato

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Oath having lounged on a sandy beach now explores a rocky one–but has eyes only for the famous lighthouse at Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia:

Photo courtesy of Jim McNeill

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In Kindle dress, Oath appears to be gazing at the Manhattan skyline from Roosevelt Island:

Photo courtesy of Mike Giroux

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Oath gazes with interest at the Perth city skyline in Western Australia, no doubt unaware that this image gives its writer a touch of nostalgia…been there twice, loved it both times.

Photo courtesy of Marian Foster

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Terie Garrison, somewhere in the UK, sent a whole slew of hilarious pictures of her cat Marzipan “claiming” the book, but this was my favorite for the cat’s expression of bliss:

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At my web designer’s  Oath was found gazing at its own website…

(Photo thanks to R. Duhon of Willowbrook  Designs.)

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Oath of Fealty, wearing stylish UK garb, lounges comfortably against the trunk of an oilberry tree, resting from the rigors of exploring the French Riviera…photo courtesy of Francis Turner:

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Many thanks to Jenn S. for  taking the book to the beach, photographing the book at the beach, and then letting me post the picture here:

Sunbathing at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

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Years ago when Baen decided to put out either the omnibus Deed or the hardcover, a proofreader found an error that had skated past all previous readings by me, other proofreaders, my alpha readers, and the editor.

All I remember about it is that it was a pronoun error of some kind.   It referred to the wrong person.  I think.  At any rate,  even when the proofreader commented on it, wondering if it was the wrong pronoun, at first I didn’t get it…but it was wrong, and needed to be changed, and none of  us who had missed it could quite believe we had.

Now the UK omnibus Deed is in production, and if any of you ever spotted it and stumbled over it and thought “Oh, I must be wrong”–and know where it is and can point it out–we have a chance to prevent its survival into another edition.   I can’t find it now.  I’m not even sure where in that monster it is, but I think either Divided Allegiance or Oath of Gold, because I think the pronoun reference is someone either talking about someone at Fin Panir or someone in Fin Panir talking about someone else at a distance.   I spent a little time looking for it but can’t find it.

I’ve started sending the manuscript to the alpha readers who passed the test.  If you heard from me that you did, and don’t get one by Sunday night (not Sunday morning–I have church), let me know.  My email load is big enough that I can lose things in the inbox.

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