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Happiness is reading a book to possibly blurb, hitting something that makes you go UM WHAT, contacting the editor, discovering the something was an error, and having the something fixed, all without being an asshole.
But that also made me stop and go, remember, no matter how hard you try, no matter how careful you are, sometimes your work will contain things you didn't put there on purpose and don't mean to endorse.
One of the editorial changes I talk about making to the early Toby books was in ROSEMARY AND RUE. Originally, a character who walks on and dies two pages later was a girl. In the book as printed, he's a boy. Why?
Because that character's death is used to motivate an ally into turning against Toby, and in the original draft, written as an optimistic teenage queer girl who wanted more casual queer rep in urban fantasy, she was a dead lesbian trope walking.
I knew what I meant, I knew why I did it, and I couldn't see the potential damage behind the moment. I initially balked at being asked to "straighten up" a queer relationship. But there was no narrative way to spare the character, and as written, it was harmful.
Sometimes authors will do things like that--or even more accidentally--and paint a harmful picture without meaning to. If we're lucky, someone catches it before we go to print. If we're not...
Anyway, I feel like I did a good thing, and I'm happy about it. It's not cool to go "I won't blurb this book, it's bad, rewrite the whole thing," but asking "was this the intent" can do a lot more help than harm.
