Just got my copyedits for A LITTLE TASTE OF POISON...
And here I'd been thinking this would be the week I could finally get to a couple of other authors' manuscripts I'd promised to comment on! The best laid plans...
I confess to opening the Word document with a little trepidation, as one never knows what sorts of things will come up in copyedits or how much work it's going to be. Plus I haven't looked ( Read more... )
(Your mention of the positive feedback was actually a really good reminder for me. It is so easy to get too focused on the work-to-be-done side of copyediting, especially on a deadline, that I often do forget to mention those things that were nicely done or enjoyable unless I'm giving feedback for a friend.)
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Yeah, even just one comment at the end of the manuscript to say "I enjoyed this!" or a couple of in-line remarks about bits you especially liked can make an author's day. Especially as we've all heard stories of nice things other CE's have said to other authors, and so tend to dolefully assume that if no such remarks appear in our manuscript, the CE must have found the book a dreary chore to read and was just too professional to say so...
However, I have great respect and admiration for copyeditors and am always grateful for their help. For instance, my CE just caught me trying to seat an entire four-year college's worth of students at two dining tables. :)
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Ooops!
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Heee. Amazing how those things slip through, isn't it. Hmm... small college? Large tables? ;D
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