Dear author's wife...

Dear author's wife,

When I ask your husband, the author for corrections to his book, and you do the proofreading "for him," do you think you could follow the simple directions I gave him in the cover letter of his galley proofs?

I asked for corrected pages, either the entire book or only the pages with corrections on them, to be sent back here. You had an option to send an email with corrections listed in the mail.

I guess I wasn't clear enough: there were two options -- physically mail the pages, or email me a note letting me know what corrections you want on which pages/paragraphs. I repeat: I guess I wasn't clear enough. Why? Because what you sent me, dear wife of the author, was:

little .jpg images of the corrected pages attached to email.

What were you thinking?

No, no, belay that last question. I really don't want to know.

Lovingly,
the production manager

(who is now tearing her hair out and printing all those little images)