Whipcrack!
Published by Deanna Hoak June 3rd, 2006 in blogI have 1800 pages of manuscripts I need to edit this month, and I’m diving in. I may not post much, but I hope you all have fun. :-)
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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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Ye gods!
I hope that’s like three or four manuscripts and not just two.
Have a good time!
Heh. It is two, actually. :-)
Welcome to the blog!
1800 pages of manuscripts = 60pp/day. Piece of cake…unless you fall behind…
I proofread + cold read nearly 600pp in the last week…Not like copy editing, though it involved some clean-up fact-checking, and I did spend at least one night without too much sleep… (I also worked a half day in-house.)
Good luck. Just keep a little bit ahead, so you have some breathing room…
Have fun, but don’t forget to come up for air every now and then! ;)
Oh, geez! And I was complaining about my paltry few hundred.
Yikes! Good luck! :-)
Good luck!
Whoa! Godspeed.
PS, jealous here that you got to meet Piers Anthony. He keeps threatening never to go to another con. Got some quirks but I like him enough to still read his newsletters every other month.
1800 pp is good news for a copyeditor. Are both of these books of the same genre? What is your method of working? Will you complete one and then take up the other? Or will you work simultaneously on both the books?
I’m asking you this because right now I’m working on three books; one on Chemical Engineering, another on Biochemical Calculations and the last on Geography. To keep my clients happy I have to switch from one to another and work in parallel. What do you do in such cases?
Because I rarely accept anything other than fiction these days, I never work on more than one project at a time– I have a harder time keeping track of and editing to each book’s style, voice, and story if I do so. Your projects are probably very long textbooks coming to you in batches? In those instances, it’s sometimes necessary to switch the way you’re describing. For fiction, though, I finish one project before starting another.