Last month, a client asked me to
check page proofs they had received.
Expect to juggle several aspects of the publishing business at once — writing, revising, promotion, plotting your next book,
checking page proofs, and writing dedications, acknowledgments, study questions, and back cover copy.
And I didn't notice when I was
checking the page proofs.
Not exact matches
But every time I sit down to work on the 200 -
page galley
proof for Evolving in Monkey Town, I suddenly think of something more important to do — like
check my email or play guitar hero or finish off the rest of that ranch dip left over from Sunday night.
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The edited papers are sent for typesetting, and
page proofs go to the authors for
checking.
Check out my product review
page for
proof!
Check out Verizon's performance results
page to see the
proof for yourself.
So I want to hold a copy of the
proof and be able to
check every
page before sending the book out into the wilds.
The term applies most often to
proofs produced in the proofreading and copy - editing review phases, while a
proof made for final editing and
checking near the end of the process is called a
page proof.
Once the book has been typeset, the proofreader will read the
page proofs,
checking things such as
page numbers and running headers, and looking for typos and spelling errors.
They also don't stamp
PROOF on the last
page so I do have the option to sell or gift my
proofs after I've
checked them.
But before I download even a free book, I
check page numbering to rule out novellas and read reviews to see if anything rules out this book, i.e. bad
proof - reading / editing, poor grammar, predictable plots.
Then per their suggestion sent a letter and over 30
pages of
proof of their mistake and the issue is still not resolved, hence me needing to call them every two weeks to
check up on them to make sure my credit score doesn't suffer because of their constant mistakes.
Having said that,
check the second to last paragraph on this
page Nick and you'll see what I'm getting at... a little
proof - reading would go a long way =)