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Q&A Can I, as a reader, submit a "Bug Report" for a novel?

I just finished a new release. I encountered a passage in the book that doesn't quite make sense. Just a single sentence that is out of place. Grammatically it is fine, but in context it doesn't s...

2 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Lyndon White‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T03:44:19Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/12806
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar Lyndon White‭ · 2019-12-08T03:44:19Z (almost 5 years ago)
I just finished a new release.

I encountered a passage in the book that doesn't quite make sense. Just a single sentence that is out of place. Grammatically it is fine, but in context it doesn't seem like it fits there.

I believe it may be a left-over from when a draft was being revised. The extra detail would have fit in to a slightly different piece of plot than is in the book. It feels like it is a left-over reference to that plot point that was not edited out, when the rest was replaced.

**Can I/Should I contact the author/publisher and ask if that section is meant to be there?** Perhaps I should post on their forum and ask about it.

If this was software I would file a bug report. Fiction books don't have bug reports. Though I have seen them for nonfiction.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2014-09-07T12:27:11Z (about 10 years ago)
Original score: 15