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The subversive copy editor : advice from Chicago (or, how to negotiate good relationships with your writers, your colleagues, and yourself) / Carol Fisher Saller.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishingPublication details: Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016.Edition: Second editionDescription: xix, 186 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780226239903 (cloth : alkaline paper)
  • 9780226240077 (paperback : alkaline paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.4/15 23
LOC classification:
  • PN4784.C75 SAL 2016
Contents:
The subversive copy editor -- The good launch -- Working for the reader, through the writer : carefulness, transparency, flexibility -- When things get tough : the difficult author -- The misguided martyr, or, Laying down your life for the serial comma -- Dear writers : a chapter of your own -- When things get tough (the sequel) : the dangerous manuscript -- Know thy word processor -- The living deadline -- That damned village : managing work relationships -- The freelancer's quandaries -- Things we haven't learned yet : keeping up professionally -- The Zen of copyediting -- You still want to be a copy editor? : Breaking in.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The subversive copy editor -- The good launch -- Working for the reader, through the writer : carefulness, transparency, flexibility -- When things get tough : the difficult author -- The misguided martyr, or, Laying down your life for the serial comma -- Dear writers : a chapter of your own -- When things get tough (the sequel) : the dangerous manuscript -- Know thy word processor -- The living deadline -- That damned village : managing work relationships -- The freelancer's quandaries -- Things we haven't learned yet : keeping up professionally -- The Zen of copyediting -- You still want to be a copy editor? : Breaking in.

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