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  • I received the copy-edited manuscript some days ago for Traitors 'Gate, Crossroads #3 (and the third of a trilogy), but due to a full house and vacation activities thereby did not start in on it immediately.

    kateelliott: Not As Bad As I Feared kateelliott 2009

  • So I'm opening up what was a working file, and I'm reading it and trying to make sure that it more or less matches the later line-edited, copy-edited published version.

    msagara: The perils of preparing web-downloads msagara 2009

  • I think there are about 25 comments in the copy-edited manuscript that require a response from me.

    Copy edits : Bev Vincent 2009

  • I received the copy-edited manuscript some days ago for Traitors 'Gate, Crossroads #3 (and the third of a trilogy), but due to a full house and vacation activities thereby did not start in on it immediately.

    Not As Bad As I Feared kateelliott 2009

  • Of course, my copy-edited manuscript of Chill has to be done, too, and so does the draft of The White City.

    skin as white as a cuttlefish bone matociquala 2009

  • At one point I stumbled upon something Hitchens wrote for the London Review of Books back in 1990, where he talked about his feud with a former newspaper baron by the name of Conrad Black -- for whom, incidentally, I've copy-edited a column or two.

    Cody Gault: Anonymous Online Commenting: A Culture of Cowards Cody Gault 2011

  • My belief is that if a refugee is prepared to walk away from a regime that has imprisoned and tortured her, flee to the UK, apply for asylum, and commit to memory the contents of the text book we make compulsory for her, then for our part we should at least be prepared to have that text book professionally copy-edited.

    A Conversation with Chris Cleave about Little Bee 2010

  • On the plus side, I turned in the D.R.R. copy-edited manuscript to my editor last week (yay!) and the next step is they put it in galley form, send it to me for a final proofreading, then it finds its way to the printer.

    Good news, bad news p_n_elrod 2009

  • Over the weekend, I finished up the copy-edited manuscript for ALMOST (the copy-editor had a thing, this time, for dangling participles, which I had a lot of, I guess,) and wrote up a proposal for something darker in an adult title for Tate.

    Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2010

  • In a minute here I'm going to get up and shower and dress and take the dog out and drink some coffee and eat some food, and then I will sharpen up my green pencils and start work on the copy-edited manuscript of Chill.

    one day i got a round trip train ticket to culver city california thecoughlin 2009

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