Sunday, March 19th, 2006
The other week, you may recall, I was all worked up over doing the copy edits for my July book, Trouble. Having never done copy edits before, I didn’t quite know what to expect, or how long it would take me to make all the changes the editor wanted. So I did what I always do: panicked first and asked questions later.
Sure enough, my worry seemed justified when the manuscript came in the mail for me, riddled with the copyeditor’s marks. Imagine three hundred-odd pages filled with these sorts of indecipherable squiggles:
# insert a space
eq# space evenly
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