Problem with backtick replacing apostroph in applescript/shell script

I've got a script that appears to be using a backtick instead of an apostrophe which is causing an error in my shell script. For the life of me I can't seem to find where the error is being generated?
The script is attached below. I'm using Exiftool, an app that writes metadata to image files. The shell script
set cmd to "exiftool -CopyrightNotice=" & exifCopyright & " " & thisFilePath & ""
set theResult to do shell script cmd
works fine but the following shell script
set cmd to "exiftool" & space & authorStr & " " & thisFilePath & ""
set theResult to do shell script cmd
returns the error "sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file" number 2. The code in the event log in applescript editor looks exactly the same to me but one fails in the shell script.
It has been suggested by the developer of Exiftool, Phil Harvey, that there is a backtick in the second shell script. I read somewhere in the applescript docs that this is due to a change in OS 10.6? Any suggestions on how to fix this?
Thanks.
Pedro

Yea, the authorStr value has a space like "Joe Smith"
Then you need to use quoted form of this string, too:
set cmd to "exiftool " & quoted form of authorStr & space & thisFilePath
although the format looks wrong to me - shouldn't there be some kind of switch, such as "-author=' before it?
You have to consider how you'd enter this at the command line to work out how best to translate it to AppleScript. For example, if the command line version were:
exiftool -author='John Doe' /path/to/some.jpg
you can see the quotes are around the name, not the entire -author switch. In this case you should be looking at something like:
set authorStr to "John Doe"
set theFilePath to "/path/to/some.jpg"
set theCmd to "exiftool -author=" & quoted form of authorStr & space & quoted form of theFilePath
Now you could, of course, use quoted form when you create the variables (e.g. set authorStr to quoted form of "John Doe"), but that may screw you up later on if/when you try to use authorStr in some other way, so I find it best to use quoted form only where it's needed.

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