I just approved the cover spreads for the new Killer of Killers cover design and the soon to be released Killer Eyes. The cover spread is the front, back, and spine of the book's cover. I just had to make sure there were no typos in the copy, and there weren't. It's a lot easier to check for typos on a book cover, front and back, than checking for typos in the entire manuscript. Often you can have three people or more check for typos in a manuscript, and still there will be typos that somehow manage to sneak through and make it to the final print.
I read an article a couple days ago that publishers these days don't do as much copy proofing as they used to do in the old days of publishing. Nowadays publishers, even the Big Six, rely more on the computer and the 'spell check' apps that are part of the word processing programs. Too often those programs are faulty, and relying on them as much as publishers and authors do these days is really not a good thing. The old fashioned human eye, imo, is superior to the computer programs or apps. Yet, both will miss typos, and they prevail.
The closest I've come to having no typos in a manuscript is my book Killer of Killers. And that's only because I had gone over it more times than I can count. I read the first three chapters just last night, and they were perfectly clean. No typos or errors of any kind. I believe the entire manuscript of KOK is perfectly clean. I know I found some typos in The Vase when I read through that one after publication. Right now, I'm thinking Killer Eyes has no more typos. I'll check it again when I get the first print book which should be imminent. That will be the moment of truth in a manner of speaking. So we'll see.
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