Comments on: How to Eat Well Before You Get Electrocuted — Hilary Heminway and Alex Heminway’s ‘Picnics’ http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/16/how-to-eat-well-before-you-get-electrocuted-hilary-heminway-and-alex-heminway%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98picnics%e2%80%99/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Sun, 26 May 2013 02:21:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/16/how-to-eat-well-before-you-get-electrocuted-hilary-heminway-and-alex-heminway%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98picnics%e2%80%99/#comment-5079 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:09:35 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/16/how-to-eat-well-before-you-get-electrocuted-hilary-heminway-and-alex-heminway%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98picnics%e2%80%99/#comment-5079 Malcolm:
The odd thing is, Gibbs Smith isn’t just a good publisher — it’s one has an especially strong reputation for books that relate to nature and the environment. Something just broke down here.

Unlike magazine publishers, book publishers don’t usually use fact-checkers (only editors and lawyers) — they expect authors to check their own facts. But most editors see it as part of their job to catch things a low tea that’s labeled a “high tea.” Let’s hope this was a one-off for the Gibbs Smith, because I’ve admired many other books that’s done.
Jan

]]> By: knightofswords http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/16/how-to-eat-well-before-you-get-electrocuted-hilary-heminway-and-alex-heminway%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98picnics%e2%80%99/#comment-5077 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:33:42 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/16/how-to-eat-well-before-you-get-electrocuted-hilary-heminway-and-alex-heminway%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98picnics%e2%80%99/#comment-5077 The Internet makes it so easy to check facts about such things as high and low tea and where one ought to be standing in a thundestorm that is strikes me as odd the authors wouldn’t have done their homework.

I’m also disappointed in Gibbs Smith; traditionally a very good publisher, I would expect them to employ fact checkers and/or to require something more substantial in the authors’ credentials.

Malcolm

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