After those reviews I must now discuss two very egregious errors in the book.  This should have been done sooner but with Bloomfest and other committments, I am only now getting to it.

The first, and I believe the worst, is the absolute abomination that the index is.  I have no excuse for this, but I can provide a reason why it turned out as it did.  I used an add in application to MS Word so that I would not have to learn all of the arcane steps in Word that I would need to construct a book.  Learning to create a table of contents, chapter headings, page headings, and even idexes is difficult in MS Word, and would have gotten in the way of actually writing the book.  So I used a program called Book Design Wizard. Please know that I am not criticizing the application itself.  It was invaluable to me in writing this book.  But what I should have known was that I needed to write the book, and only after all of the editing was done, and the draft was final, then and only then should the index have been created.  After I finished each chapter I marked words in it for the index.  Obviously I should have realized that every revision made after that would affect the placing of items in the index.  Every time a revision was made the index became more jumbled.  After the publisher provided an inital draft, and after subsequent ones, I never checked the index for accuracy.  I assumed that since the "software" was doing the job I need not bother.  That was pure foolishness on my part and so I must humbly apologize for the index.

 Next I misspelled DuBois.  This was pointed out to me by a reader, and after doing some research I realized that I had incorrectly spelled DuBois as Dubois.  This brings up another question which I will leave to those who read posts on this site: is DuBois pronounced Dubwah, or Duboys?  Most everyone I have ever spoken with says Duboys.  As far as I know DuBois, in French, means the woods. But the capital B formalizes the word and makes it seem more French in its nature, so DuBwah is the more likely correct pronunciation.  One more reason for the French pronunciation, I knew a man in California whose sur name was DuBois.  Anyone who referred to him as Duboys was instantly corrected to DuBwah.