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    “Carol Fisher Saller has hit this one out of the ballpark. Ms. Saller is knowledgeable and funny, her advice practical and relevant, and the book she has written is above all readable. It was exhilarating, as if I'd been to a revival meeting where Ms. Saller was the preacher and I was the amen corner.”
    Wendalyn Nichols, Copyediting

     

    The Subversive Copy Editor
    Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself)

    Carol Fisher Saller

    Publication Date: March 16, 2009 Paper • $13.00 • £9.00 (Also available in hardcover)
    UK Publication Date: April 13, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-226-73425-5


    “This author is giving me a fit.”
    “I wish that I could just DEMAND the use of the serial comma at all times.”
    “My author wants his preface to come at the end of the book. This just seems ridiculous to me. I mean, it’s not a post-face.”

    Each year, writers submit over three thousand grammar and style questions to the Q&A page at The Chicago Manual of Style Online—and one woman, Carol Fisher Saller, reads every single one of them.

    These writer-editor standoffs are classic, hilarious—and, as Saller points out in her new book, all too common. In The Subversive Copy Editor, Saller asks her readers to become “subversive” in two ways: one, by rethinking their understanding of the author as the enemy, and two, by keeping in mind that it’s okay to break the rules sometimes (like when it benefits the reader). In one chapter, Saller takes on the difficult author, in another she speaks to writers themselves. Throughout, she includes useful tips for prioritizing work, freelancing effectively, organizing computer files, and writing the perfect e-mail. Saller’s fresh emphasis on negotiation and flexibility will surprise many of us who have absorbed—along with the dos and don’ts of our stylebooks—an attitude that our way is the right way. After all, and as Saller puts it, “the point is not how to copyedit, but how to survive doing it.”

    Carol Fisher Saller is a senior manuscript editor at the University of Chicago Press, the editor of The Chicago Manual of Style Online’s Q&A (www.chicagomanualofstyle.org), and the author of several children’s books.

     

    Carol Fisher Saller is available for interviews. For more information, please contact Laura Andersen at landersen@press.uchicago.edu

     

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