by Jamie Chavez | Feb 11, 2013 | Your Editor Says …
Recently a friend commented on my post about formatting a manuscript to be edited, asking, “Do you have another tutorial for how the writer should respond to your comments and corrections in track changes?” Here it is. Track changes, you’ll recall, is an editing tool...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 30, 2012 | Your Editor Says …
You’d be surprised how often I get a document from an author with the formatting all over the map. Formatting changes from one page to the next. Sometimes from one paragraph to the next. Margins are moved, a zillion returns take up space, random returns where they...
by Jamie Chavez | Jan 31, 2012 | Your Editor Says …
This has happened to me so many times that when I found myself ranting about it to the Irishman (who is a saint for listening) the other day, I had the thought that I should blog about it. Now that I’ve calmed down (a little bit), I have. 🙂 So here’s the thing. There...
by Jamie Chavez | Sep 29, 2011 | Your Editor Says …
I love what I do so much that I sometimes forget the person whose publisher just informed him I’ll be his editor may not know what to expect. May be a little apprehensive. (One of “my” authors even blogged about it here.) I forget that while I’m excited about having a...
by Jamie Chavez | May 23, 2011 | Your Editor Says …
Some weeks ago I got a manuscript back from an author. It was already “late” due to the author’s professional activities, although both the publisher and I, the editor on the project, were aware that we’d be compressing the schedule. Because the manuscript was in such...
