Carol Fisher Saller

The Subversive Copy Editor

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

148 pages,  5 x 8  © 2009
Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing

Cloth $30.00

ISBN: 9780226734248   Published March 2009

Paper $13.00

ISBN: 9780226734255   Published March 2009

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• Synopsis
• Table of Contents
• Bio

Introduction: I Hear You

Part One: Working with the Writer, For the Reader

1 The Subversive Copy Editor
2 The Good Launch
3 Working for the Reader, through the Writer: Carefulness, Transparency, Flexibility
4 When Things Get Tough: The Difficult Author
5 Dear Writers: A Chapter of Your Own

Part Two: Working with Your Colleagues and Yourself

6 When Things Get Tough (the Sequel): The Dangerous Manuscript
7 Know Thy Word Processor
8 The Living Deadline
9 That Damned Village: Managing Work Relationships
10 The Freelancer’s Quandaries
11 The Zen of Copyediting

Appendix: You Still Want to Be a Copy Editor? Breaking In
Acknowledgments
Further Reading
Index

Subjects

• Reference and Bibliography

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