Really, you must meet Carol Saller. She is Carol Saller is a senior manuscript editor at the University of Chicago Press and editor of the Chicago Manual of Style Online's Q&A. Follow her Tweets and explore them. Read her blogs. Here's one that I thought especially important because the items on her list are so rarely discussed by authors:
http://www.subversivecopyeditor.com/blog/2010/07/advice-for-writers-preparing-your-emanuscript.html
And thank you to Erika Lamoureaux, Ph.D. candidate in sociology at UCLA for letting me know about Carol.
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson edits, consults and speaks on issues of publishing. Find her The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0978515870. Learn more about her other authors' aids at www.howtodoitfrugally.com, where writers will find lists and other helps on the Resources for Writers page. She blogs on all things publishing (not just editing!) at her Sharing with Writers blog. Find me tweeting writers' resources at www.twitter.com/frugalbookpromo. And please tweet this post to your followers. We all need a little help with editing. (-:
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