Jeff Bradberry
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Page 26: "The chain link came apart on the welded steam: ..."...
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Typo: "Is the building is on fire?". It's in my actual copy as well....
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kiloseven commented on
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I went to Bowling Green State University in NW Ohio to learn how to speak Television Newscaster, as my mother tongue was solid Corn Belt, an admixture of my mother's (Cairo, Illinois) and my nanny's (Paducah, Kentucky), overlad by SouthWest Florida Cracker. Mostly worked, except when drunk or tired, as Scott Sanford can probably confirm....
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Charlie Stross commented on
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how hard would it have been to hire a copyeditor who knew the subject area? Very! It's a specialised subject area -- specific to fiction set in the UK -- and copyeditors are grossly underpaid. Also, you can't just drop a Regency Romance copyeditor into an SF/F book: the genre conventions and reader expectations are different and they'll probably get more stuff wrong than they fix. Finally, don't even think about asking "why didn't you use your UK publisher for the edits, then?" Because: been there, did that, had to get the editing job re-done from scratch (on a previous...
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Charlie Stross commented on
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I'd just like to add that my regular copy editor for Laundry books, Marty Halpern, wasn't available for this one. (He acquired and edited the first two books for Golden Gryphon and I'd managed to keep him for 11 books with Ace and then Tor.com, but that's over a 20 year period: time caught up with us.) So I have no idea who the CE was on Season of Skulls....
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Antipaganda commented on
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Ow, my corns!...
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andyf commented on
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its extremely good!!...
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