Novelist Terri Bruce blamed her editor for introducing grammatical errors in her book and has stopped the publishing house from selling copies of her latest novel.

Novelist Terri Bruce itemized 260 errors that she claims were introduced in her novel "Thereafter" during editing and proofreading by her publisher Eternal Press. She stated that this has resulted into a breach of contract.

The lawsuit between the author and publisher was settled at County of Sonoma court, California, September 10, with rights in "Thereafter" and an earlier novel "Hereafter", returned to the author.

The fantasy author who claimed that her editor made her sound like "an illiterate git" has stopped the publisher from selling copies of her latest novel after the judge agreed that it would damage her professional reputation as a writer.

"The publisher's version of Thereafter makes me sound like an illiterate git," Bruce wrote on her blog. "If I had meant that the cat started staring at Irene the moment she looked down, I would have written the sentence the way EP did," she explained. "However, what I meant, which is what I wrote, is that the cat was already staring at Irene, before she looked down. In the first sentence, the cat stares at Irene in reaction to her looking at it. In the second, Irene looks at the cat in reaction to it staring at her."

According to Bruce, the case turned in her favor after the judge who issued the restraining order agreed that the continued distribution of "Thereafter", for even another day, was too detrimental to her professional reputation to allow it to continue until the suit for breach was settled. This harm to her reputation outweighed any adverse costs or loss to the publisher from not being allowed to distribute/sell the book.