by Jamie Chavez | May 10, 2014 | Books You Might Like, The Book Biz, Your Editor Says …
Oh, gosh, I love John McIntyre! His humor, his knowledge, his writing voice. Enjoy! The Old Editor Says … The AP Stylebook is a set of guidelines, not dictation from Jehovah to Moses or a substitute for editorial judgment. Stylebooks are useful things for...
by Jamie Chavez | Mar 23, 2014 | Your Editor Says …
The Borg are in charge over at the AP, it seems. The AP Stylebook has just announced a change: over is now interchangeable with more than in reference to numbers. That is, There are more than five dozen dandelions blooming in my backyard … can now be stated as There...
by Jamie Chavez | Dec 16, 2013 | Words & Language, Your Editor Says …
My friend author/editor Ramona Richards has a monthly column over at CFOM** and this month she’s declared she’s a reformed Grammar Nazi. What changed her? She got into publishing. 🙂 That’s right. If you work in publishing you learn very quickly there’s no such thing...
by Jamie Chavez | Dec 9, 2013 | Your Editor Says …
No, no. I don’t mean passing notes. (Or margin notes; I’ve already talked about those.) You’ve probably called them footnotes—you see these mostly in scholarly works—or endnotes, which you’ll see (ahem) at the end of a text. When do you need a note? That’s easy: • if...
by Jamie Chavez | Oct 3, 2013 | The Book Biz
People ask me how to get into the publishing business all the time. Nice, sincere people with an affinity for words and, perhaps, a degree in English. I don’t even know what to say other than Run! Run! Run away fast! (Wait, did I just say that out loud?) Honestly,...
