Author Meme
Published by Deanna Hoak February 4th, 2006 in copyeditingI’d love to see authors post an interesting portion from the style sheet of their latest book, as I did earlier this week for Josh Conviser’s Echelon. This could fall flat, because I know that some publishers don’t provide a copy of the style sheet for the author. :-) But! In case you do have one (or in case you want to go through and pull words out!), post some of the words you feel best exemplify your text, and let me know. I’ll link it here.
Here’s one from Janni Lee Simner.
Nalo Hopkinson posted a portion of her style sheet from Salt Roads.
Chris Roberson plays along with part of the style sheet from Paragaea.
Elizabeth Bear points out two excerpts from Blood and Iron’s style sheet.
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I'm a freelance copyeditor specializing in fantasy and science fiction. SF/F novels I have copyedited have been finalists for (and have sometimes won) the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke, Golden Spur, John W. Campbell Memorial, Quill, Locus, Philip K. Dick, British Science Fiction, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy awards. In 2007 I was short-listed for a World Fantasy Award for my copyediting.
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I get my copyedits back next week, and would totally post a portion of my style sheet then. So give me a week, and you shall have a most interesting list. :-)
I don’t have a style sheet or anything (or a copyeditor yet, though I hope hope hope they’ll ask you, and I’m asking them to ask you, though I’ve been warned they have little influence), but anyway, here are some of the words that exemplify my text:
birdie
flit
DNGO
gib
overvid
winnirun
ouroboros
wondjina
mazer
Production at Tor has thus far always contacted me when the editor requests me, so we’ll see!
Wonderful! I’ll try to find a way to keep this post on top for a while. :-)
I posted a copy of the style sheet I sent to my publisher in my journal a while back. (The title of the book has since changed, and is now Secret of the Three Treasures.)
Go ahead and post this in your journal. I’ll link it in the main post.
Here’s mine!
http://nalohopkinson.blogspot.com/2006/02/deanna-hoaks-author-style-sheet-meme.html
This is where I realise how much of a newbie I am. I didn’t do a style sheet at all for VELLUM and I, um, sorta only just came across the idea in doing the proofs for the US edition so there isn’t one for INK (yet).
It is a neat meme though, in terms of a glimpse into the fictive world.
A style sheet is something the copyeditor should have prepared while copyediting; it’s not something you have to do yourself. Ask your publisher if you can have a copy! I’d love to see terms from yours. :-)
I had a couple last year for Blood and Iron:
http://matociquala.livejournal.com/668855.html
http://matociquala.livejournal.com/669968.html