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X. P. Callahan's avatar

Thank you for writing "copy editor" instead of "copyeditor," a bizarre usage that seems to have come into the world via Karen Judd, whose "Copyediting: A Practical Guide," at least in its first edition (1982), had a surfeit of typos and offered some truly impractical advice. Apart from proofreading, that edition needed developmentalediting by a developmentaleditor.

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Lauren Levato Coyne's avatar

Thanks Lev…I think? HA! I’m working on my first book now and will be submitting starting in October. Good warnings. It’s probably a good sign that it doesn’t daunt me, right?

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