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Starbeam:

--- Quote from: meg_evonne on October 05, 2011, 08:35:59 PM --- Top this off with the simple fact tha,t as you read any book today, you will see many of the rules broken by modern editors with almost complete abandonment. Worse yet? It seems to be by accident or simple lack of grammar knowledge.  *sigh*

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Copy editor, not editor. Editors do not do the grammar/proofreading edits. Copy editors do those. Copy editors and proofreaders. Depending on the company, one works as both, or they have a different person for each.  On occasion, I've seen editors talk about line edits, but I would think they're looking more at tightening the prose than for grammar/punctuation errors. And sometimes, the changes that a copy editor/proofreader suggests will get steted by the author and not changed.

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:

--- Quote from: Starbeam on October 05, 2011, 09:29:25 PM ---  On occasion, I've seen editors talk about line edits, but I would think they're looking more at tightening the prose than for grammar/punctuation errors.

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They are; I am married to a published novelist and have seen this process in some detail.

meg_evonne:
Interesting related post reference in the Sisters in Crime Oct newsletter.  Take a peek.    http://crimefictioncollective.blogspot.com/2011/10/edits-ahoy-are-you-onboard.html?m=1

and thank you on copy exitors and editors.

And did you read the comments? :-)

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