From the Copyeditor
The copyeditor has finished his first read-through of Chancellorsville's Forgotten Front. Mostly, we had to focus on the formatting in our footnotes, but otherwise, there was very little we had to do to the manuscript. In fact, it was in such good shape, the copyeditor sent the following note:
Congratulations: it's quite an accomplishment for me to have so little to return to you at this stage. It means you submitted a good, clean ms and followed up well. Very professional.
Always nice to hear. He'll do two more read-throughs, including one that'll be an intensive nit-picking, so I'm sure there's more work ahead but it's nice to know, at this stage in the process, that we're in such good shape. Here's the timetable we're working under, courtesy of our production editor, Veronica Kane:
The schedule is very tight and does not allow much time for delays, so it's important we keep in touch on a weekly and sometimes daily basis. The schedule going forward looks like this:
2/8/13: Rob has completed his developmental editing review and the authors have signed off on the files.
2/9/13 - 2/18/13: Savas Beatie will do a copyedit and proof of the files for consistency and grammar.
2/19/13 - 2/26/13: Savas Beatie will format the book
2/27/13 - 3/6/13: Authors will look at the book one last time to fix any errors. This would not be the time to re-write any sections.
3/7/13 - 3/11/13: Savas Beatie will incorporate any further author changes
3/12/13 - 3/19/13: Savas Beatie or authors will generate the index.
3/20/13 - 3/24/13: Savas Beatie will do macro check of book and send files to printer on 3/25/13
4/26/13: Books ship from printer to sites, authors, and Savas Beatie
I realize this is an extremely tight schedule, but we also have two other Chancellorsville books that we are working on right now which also need to be released for the 5/5 anniversary.
Congratulations: it's quite an accomplishment for me to have so little to return to you at this stage. It means you submitted a good, clean ms and followed up well. Very professional.
Always nice to hear. He'll do two more read-throughs, including one that'll be an intensive nit-picking, so I'm sure there's more work ahead but it's nice to know, at this stage in the process, that we're in such good shape. Here's the timetable we're working under, courtesy of our production editor, Veronica Kane:
The schedule is very tight and does not allow much time for delays, so it's important we keep in touch on a weekly and sometimes daily basis. The schedule going forward looks like this:
2/8/13: Rob has completed his developmental editing review and the authors have signed off on the files.
2/9/13 - 2/18/13: Savas Beatie will do a copyedit and proof of the files for consistency and grammar.
2/19/13 - 2/26/13: Savas Beatie will format the book
2/27/13 - 3/6/13: Authors will look at the book one last time to fix any errors. This would not be the time to re-write any sections.
3/7/13 - 3/11/13: Savas Beatie will incorporate any further author changes
3/12/13 - 3/19/13: Savas Beatie or authors will generate the index.
3/20/13 - 3/24/13: Savas Beatie will do macro check of book and send files to printer on 3/25/13
4/26/13: Books ship from printer to sites, authors, and Savas Beatie
I realize this is an extremely tight schedule, but we also have two other Chancellorsville books that we are working on right now which also need to be released for the 5/5 anniversary.