Comments | stephanieburgis: Embarrassing salvation (yes, this is about copyedits!)

stephanieburgis

Embarrassing salvation (yes, this is about copyedits!)

Feb 21, 2012 15:44

Oof. After a morning of copyedits, I am feeling not only wiped out, but most of all so, SO grateful to my copyeditor. It's not just that she's saved me from some really awful typos, including a couple that genuinely baffle me (how on earth did I come to type the word "dunning" when I meant "drumming"? seriously, how did that even happen in the ( Read more... )

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_stranger_here February 21 2012, 18:36:59 UTC

A truly great copyeditor is a real treasure -- and smart of you to request her again!

stephanieburgis February 21 2012, 19:38:27 UTC

If I could, I would work with her FOREVERANDEVERANDEVER! It's amazing just what a difference it makes.

bogwitch64 February 21 2012, 21:25:24 UTC

Not for nothin' but...Jenica is the BEST name I've ever heard!!!

stephanieburgis February 22 2012, 15:54:09 UTC

It is great, isn't it?

littleyuzu February 21 2012, 23:09:07 UTC

As a copy editor myself, I appreciate this post! I don't know how many times I've returned edited copy to a writer, and I basically get a "how dare you change what I wrote!" I just tell them I'm trying to save them from embarrassment. For the most part, however, I feel writers appreciate what we do. So on behalf of copy editors everywhere, thank you, Stephanie!

Hats off to your American editor! Good catch with Kat's middle name. It's all about consistency. ;)

stephanieburgis February 22 2012, 15:55:33 UTC

I sooooooo appreciate my copyeditors' work, on both sides of the Atlantic! My books would be so much weaker without them.

kellyrfineman February 22 2012, 13:26:48 UTC

Hooray for Jenica!

stephanieburgis February 22 2012, 15:58:43 UTC

I am SO grateful to her!

coraline73 February 24 2012, 17:16:30 UTC

At least you're in good company. Jane Austen didn't know how her heorine's name was spelt,either (she apparently used both Bennet and
Bennett, in P&P - presumably she had a good copy editor, too)

And 'dunning' is a correct Regency word, isn't it (although presumably not in context, if you meant 'drumming'!)

Looking forward to Kat 3.

stephanieburgis February 24 2012, 17:25:52 UTC

Oh, thank you for sharing that Austen story! It makes me feel much better.

And I think I actually did use 'dunning' in its correct Regency usage at other points in the trilogy...which may have been how it slipped through my subconscious there when I meant 'drumming'. Oops.

I really hope you enjoy Kat 3!