A Copyediting Checklist for Novelists

There is only One Rule to copyediting. However, there are more than two dozen tasks set forth on the Checklist herein to implement the One Rule.

This book was written for the hands-on author who either does it all or knows how to do it all--the research, the typing, finding or creating the cover, preparing front and back matter, jacket blurbs, etc.

I began my copyediting career in 2008, freelancing for the first 5.5 years for one of the well-known traditional publishing houses in New York City, then freelancing directly with Indie-published authors, and have loved copyediting the hundreds of manuscripts I have had the pleasure to work on to date.

My tools of the trade are Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition (Web11) and The Chicago Manual of Style, Seventeenth Edition (17CMS).

Although the 17CMS contains 973 pages of actual rules, the first 616 pages deal with novelists. Read them along with A Copyediting Checklist for Novelists.