Comments | mizkit: going to be here forever...

mizkit

going to be here forever...

Oct 16, 2007 12:16

After an hour and a half of work, I'm on page 17 of 421 on the copy edits for HOUSE OF CARDS. Unfortunately, I've gotten the same copy editor I did last time, and she and I clearly have different writing styles. The unfortunate part is she's corrected a great deal of material which is simply not to her liking, rather than being actively wrong or ( Read more... )

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Comments 17

kristine_smith October 16 2007, 11:18:12 UTC

I feel your pain. Oh Boy, do I feel your pain.

mizkit October 16 2007, 12:52:31 UTC

*sits with you in a pit of pain* :)

dancinghorse October 16 2007, 13:10:16 UTC

I'm at the copyedit sitting on table glaring at me with two weeks left to do them stage.

Next week. Yes.

Have just finished book rewrite. And proofs of other book are due tomorrow (mailed those out last week).

Yours from the La Brea of Pain.

get another one? soapturtle October 16 2007, 11:37:57 UTC

After you go through this with this copy editor, could you request another one from now on? Or perhaps if not, let the copy editor know that her style is different than yours, and if she wished to edit in her style she'll need to write her own book?

Re: get another one? mizkit October 16 2007, 11:45:44 UTC

We did request a different one after getting this one last time. :p

Re: get another one? soapturtle October 16 2007, 11:57:53 UTC

Well that's teh suck.

I'd probably do something mean like let her know that when I sent it back.

Re: get another one? irishkate October 16 2007, 12:42:02 UTC

A subsequent "I really mean it this time" might be good. A second request backed up by reference to the first and an estimate of how many times you had to STET (what's STET)

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logrusboy October 16 2007, 14:53:46 UTC

Dearest Kelly,

All those other authors meant nothing to me.

Love and kisses,

Brian

dqg_neal October 16 2007, 16:01:55 UTC

Aren't you glad it was a very simple note there to Kelly? I can just imagine if the person tried to write something well say not intended for the public, and sent it along with the wrong book. :)

My wife gets called a variety of different names... I've never seen the other people that look like her, but apparently others have and know the other person... I just wish that someday they come to give back the cash and prizes they borrowed from the other person. :)

irishkate October 16 2007, 16:26:02 UTC

As long as they don't show up looking for the money they lent her!

tim_pratt October 18 2007, 00:03:13 UTC

Ha! Well, the thought was generous, I suppose. I'll sign a copy to you properly, personally, if you like!

Recently I sent off some spare ARCs of Blood Engines to a bunch of readers as part of a promotional giveaway... except I was inattentive when I copy-and-pasted their addresses, and wound up accidentally making several labels with the same person's address. I never noticed, and blithely mailed them off, only to receive a good-natured if bewildered e-mail asking if I'd *meant* to send that particular person five copies. She kindly sent them on to the intended recipients for me. That's a kind-hearted reader! Me, I probably would've just cackled and eBayed them...

mizkit October 18 2007, 08:16:04 UTC

If you'll be at WFC I'll bring this copy along to get it signed. :)

tim_pratt October 19 2007, 00:05:45 UTC

My wife is expected to give birth somewhere in the vicinity of Hallowe'en, so no WFC for me. I'd say "alas" or "unfortunately," but in truth I'd rather become a father than go to a convention, if I had to choose. :)