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  • So the holiday passed, I got to work and plowed through the copy-edit (I am fortunate to have been given a most excellent copy editor for the Crossroads series).

    kateelliott: Not As Bad As I Feared kateelliott 2009

  • By now I really wanted to be much further along with it than I am, but in the last couple of weeks I've re-read and done final polishes of 2 novels, and before that I rewrote them post copy-edit back to back, so I guess that's a bit of work to be going on with.

    And so it goes ... karenmiller 2010

  • So the holiday passed, I got to work and plowed through the copy-edit (I am fortunate to have been given a most excellent copy editor for the Crossroads series).

    Not As Bad As I Feared kateelliott 2009

  • I hated Living With Ghosts with a passion while doing the copy-edit -- and moreover my awful pun which I thought I'd suppressed is still there and can't be removed.

    kateelliott: Not As Bad As I Feared kateelliott 2009

  • A more dubious advantage is being able to copy-edit my dreams.

    Making Light: Open thread 136 2010

  • Some publishers have given me a careful copy-edit in which all American usage is changed to British, and some British publishers just buy the American plates and print the American version with the copyright notice changed.

    O You Lucky Brits! Walter Jon Williams 2010

  • When a piece of work is prepared for publication, every copy-edit and correction costs your publisher money.

    seanan_mcguire: Write! Right? Fifty MORE thoughts on writing. seanan_mcguire 2009

  • DC, please see this as an official offer to copy-edit your books.

    A Tiny Comic Rant Fred Perry 2009

  • DC, please see this as an official offer to copy-edit your books.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Fred Perry 2009

  • But I realize each book is a unique and fulfilling experience – from pouring the story onto the page to revisions, copy-edit, page proofs, then release and, hopefully, into the hands of eager readers.

    One Year Later - Adrian Phoenix - Plus Contest! Tia Nevitt 2009

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