An editorial query addresses a communication gap between editor and author. An editor spots a section that is confusing, incomplete, inconsistent or perhaps misleading and asks the author to resolve it. A good query doesn’t simply state that a section…
A style sheet is simply a brief summary of the editing choices you make as you work through a document. It doesn’t need to be anything fancy. For a short document, a style sheet could be a single page containing…
Pick one page of a manuscript and read it straight through without correcting anything. Read it a second time, keeping in mind one question: What does someone else reading this need to know in order to follow the text without…
A book can have multiple types of errors simultaneously. One chapter might be disorganized, a single sentence could be hard to follow, a character’s name might be misspelled in one place and spelled correctly in another, and there might be…