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Contents at a Glance
Introduction .................................................................1
Part I: Welcome to the Word World ................................7
Chapter 1: Reading as a Job? Oh, Yes ..............................................................................9
Chapter 2: Jobs for Bookworms .....................................................................................17
Chapter 3: Other Publishing Opportunities..................................................................31
Index .......................................................................349
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Table of Contents
Introduction ..................................................................1
About This Book...............................................................................................1
Conventions Used in This Book .....................................................................2
What You’re Not to Read.................................................................................2
Foolish Assumptions .......................................................................................2
How This Book Is Organized...........................................................................3
Part I: Welcome to the Word World......................................................3
Part II: Conquering Copyediting ...........................................................3
Part III: Picking Up a Proofreading Career...........................................3
Part IV: Adding to Your Repertoire ......................................................4
Part V: Turning Your Skills into Paychecks .........................................4
Part VI: The Part of Tens .......................................................................4
Part VII: Appendixes...............................................................................4
Icons Used in This Book..................................................................................5
Where to Go from Here....................................................................................5
Table of Contents xi
Chapter 6: A Handful of Copyediting Specialties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77
Editing Fiction.................................................................................................78
Letting the author’s voice reign..........................................................78
Ensuring continuity and chronology .................................................79
Handling dialogue.................................................................................81
Tapping into genres: Mystery, romance, and fantasy......................82
Translating British Materials for a U.S. Audience ......................................83
Considering the market .......................................................................84
Sharing a few of my favourite guidelines ..........................................84
Heading into the Kitchen ..............................................................................86
Getting familiar with the specialty .....................................................87
Formatting recipes ...............................................................................88
Chapter 15: Creating and Using the All-Important Style Sheet . . . . .227
What’s the Big Deal about the Style Sheet? ..............................................227
Copyeditors, Know Your Audience............................................................228
Deciding What to Put on Your Style Sheet ................................................229
Recognizing a judgment call .............................................................229
Noting essential issues ......................................................................230
Listing additional issues....................................................................232
Proofreading Your Baby ..............................................................................234
Sampling Style Sheets..................................................................................234
Putting the Style Sheet into Action ............................................................239
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Table of Contents xv
Chapter 16: Formatting a Manuscript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .241
Knowing Just Enough about Design and Composition ...........................242
Meeting the Basic Codes .............................................................................243
Placing Codes or Tags..................................................................................244
Taking Special Care with Extracts..............................................................244
Epigraphs ............................................................................................245
Verse extracts .....................................................................................246
Letter extracts ....................................................................................246
Extracts even I haven’t thought of yet.............................................247
Highlighting Text in Boxes, Sidebars, and Other Cheaters.....................248
Creating Lists ................................................................................................249
Bullets versus numbers .....................................................................250
Lists complications ............................................................................251
Hard-Copy Typecoding Sample ..................................................................252
Electronic Tagging Sample ..........................................................................254
Index........................................................................349
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Introduction
Y ou read, right? Magazines, books, the back of your toothpaste tube.
(Hey, we all get desperate.) How did that stuff get written? Well, people
tend to think of writers, but few think about the unsung heroes who make
those words look good: copyeditors and proofreaders.
Most words go through an entire process before they get printed on your
toothpaste tube. Or in your magazine. Or in the juicy thriller in your back-
pack. In this book, I demystify the smoke and mirrors behind making writing
good writing.
Let me be clear from the start: The grammar check function on your word-
processing software does not create the kind of good writing I’m talking
about. Don’t get me wrong: Technology is good. But all the electronic organiz-
ers, GPS devices, and robot vacuum cleaners in the world can’t do what
people have been doing for thousands of years: communicate clearly and
effectively through writing. That task is left to the writers, who are very much
still in vogue. It can only follow that we copyeditors and proofreaders — who
clean up after writers — are very much in our heyday as well.
I wrote this book for word lovers: people with an interest in becoming copy-
editors or proofreaders, improving their language skills, and increasing their
knowledge of the world of editing. I’m not talking about snobby word freaks
here. (You know who you are, Edmund, from Freshman Composition.) I’m
talking about people who love language, have a pretty solid understanding of
how a sentence and a paragraph are put together, and truly enjoy the hunt
for errors. If I just described you, welcome to your book! You and I are going
to have a good time — promise.
I wrote this book knowing that you may be just starting out in the career
world or you may be looking to change careers. Either way, I show you how
to prepare yourself to be a good copyeditor or proofreader (or both), build
your résumé, hunt for paying work, and excel on the job.
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Foolish Assumptions
I’m guessing you’re reading this book for one of two reasons:
Introduction 3
You want to brush up your editing skills. Perfect. This book offers lots
of juicy info that can help you improve your editing skills (and your writ-
ing skills as well). This isn’t a grammar guide, but you get solid tips
about how punctuation should be used, and I point out the most com-
monly misspelled and misused words. I discuss various methods of
reading documents so you can train your eyes and your brain to catch
errors and question inconsistencies. I also list lots of other references so
you know where to look if you’re craving more details about grammar or
usage.
I also show you how to balance rules against style and make informed judg-
ment calls, and I explain what a style sheet is and how to use it. One of the
most important chapters in the book appears here as well: one that explains
how to copyedit and proofread electronic documents. (Even if your computer
skills won’t earn you bragging rights, you want to add this knowledge to your
repository so you don’t miss out on valuable job opportunities.)
Introduction 5
Icons Used in This Book
To keep things around here neat and tidy, I’ve marked some paragraphs of
this book with the following icons:
This icon indicates something that you want to keep in mind for a later time.
The information may be something you’re already aware of, but even so, tuck
it away for future use because it’s something that I think could make the dif-
ference between doing okay at copyediting and proofreading and doing some
serious cranking.
I don’t use this one often — try to accentuate the positive whenever possible,
right? But if I want you to avoid making a mistake that could cause some seri-
ous friction with your boss, client, or author, I highlight the suggestion with
this explosive icon.
If you find that you are more interested in one part of this book than another,
and you want to start there, go for it. There’s no reason to read each page in
succession from cover to cover. By all means skip around and find the sec-
tions that are most useful to you. When you hit the ones that are closest to
your heart, I have every confidence that you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll wax
grammatical.
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Part I
Welcome to the
Word World
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