Sentences with phrase «copy editors on»

Having said that, I've had some good and terrible copy editors on my traditionally published books.

I start work on the week's translations on Sunday night, in preparation for a daylong discussion session with the three other translation copy editors on Monday.

Feedback adds that if you feel sorry for the copy editor on that travel brochure, spare a thought for Dutch teen Milan Schipper, who, after a booking mishap, last month found himself 17,000 kilometres from his intended destination, facing the snow - capped Canadian hills instead of the balmy Tasman Sea.

Not exact matches

The issue sold 984,697 copies and is the number six cover on the American Society of Magazine Editors October 2005 list.

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She wasn't on the masthead» her official title was Distinguished Fellow of the Institute» but she was in practice until her retirement last year as FT's chief copy editor.

[Editor's note: Hartshorne gave me a copy of this paper just before I heard him present it at Central State University in Edmond, Oklahoma on April 7, 1987.

The American Copy Editors Society is organizing a National Summit on Plagiarism and Fabrication, which will take place on April 5, and this has led a number of people to start thinking about plagiarism issues in advance of the event.

A Lutheran pastor who also serves as director of the Visual Education Service at Yale Divinity School, where he has taught courses on media and ministry, Everist has served as editor of Please Copy, has written a soon - to - he published book on Creative Uses of Media by the Church, and has created a four volume review publication, Educaid.

The army of copy editors and fact - checkers suggests that magazines believe the print version is more important by far: What appears on the blogs doesn't count, unless it is so egregious that even the subscribers of the print magazine and the advertisers start complaining.

IN 1973, Des Moines Register copy editor John Karras and columnist Donald Kaul conspired to escape the newsroom and meet real Iowans out on the farms by biking across the state.

Copy editors at the New York Times who face possible layoffs sent a letter to their editors protesting the newspaper's proposed changes, and taking aim at the «humiliating» process of forcing those who might be on the chopping block to re-apply for their jobs.

But I was on holiday last week, and our books editor had already been sent a review copy, so it seemed rude not to stick it in my suitcase and give it a quick once - over.

I then pass the manuscript on to the copy editor and printer who create the galley proofs.

As a book trundles through the production process, from copy - editing to type - setting and finally printing and binding, it is up to the editor to keep an eye on the process and smooth out any difficulties which arise.

As ScienceInsider reported on Thursday, the journal's editor, Graham Parker, retracted the paper on 21 July after it was discovered that several paragraphs in the introduction had been copied, without attribution, from a 2007 review article.

Back when I was a magazine editor, I once made a production mistake so horrendous that the back cover fell off of all 300,000 copies on the newsstand.

For more than 30 years, I've been a health coach for millions of Americans — as a writer on Prevention magazine; as the editor - in - chief of Prevention Magazine Health Books and Rodale Books; and as the writer of 10 health books that have sold more than 2 million copies and hundreds of articles about health, appearing in national magazines like Prevention, Health, Self, Men's Health and Natural Solutions.

Josie is 25, a newspaper copy editor, and still smarting from being picked on in high school.

if they had sold more copies of the game on WiiU, the level editor woudl be available on that platform... so, as always (and as it should be), these decisions are based on sales.

Then all she has to do is get the poor chump to drop her in time to have the hard copy on her editor's (Bebe Neuwirth) desk before the next deadline.

Along with movie doc usual suspects John Carpenter, William Friedkin, and Martin Scorsese (who brilliantly homaged Hitch in a 2007 mockumentary commercial), relative newcomers Guillermo Del Toro and Eli Roth, as well as assorted lesser known editors, film composers, and others are on hand to explain just why Hitchcock is the most copied film director of all time.

You'll receive a copy of our new On Story book, On Story - The Golden Ages of Television, published by UT Press to be released in fall of 2018 with a personal note from On Story book editors Maya Perez and Barbara Morgan.

Based on Kim Barker's memoir, The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Fey thrives here, staring as Kim Baker - a network copy editor, who in 2003 leaves her desk job behind, to become a conflict reporter in war - torn Kabul.

As copy editor and compiler of these books, I noticed that even students who were normally reluctant writers continued to want to make finishing touches on their work.

«It definitely gets tossed around on rough roads,» said copy editor Rusty Blackwell, «but I'm not really complaining.»

Speaking of color, senior copy editor Kara Snow racked up another 748 trouble - free miles on a holiday trip to dusty red Arizona this winter.

Copy editor Kara Snow, on the other hand, loves the attention.

Copy editor Kara Snow shed some light on those other options, noting of the G90, «As much as Automobile editors love to drive, this one is best appreciated from the back seat.

Copy editor Rusty Blackwell ordained it «the best slicer and dicer on the market today,» while editor - in - chief Jean Jennings succinctly called it «a superb little rocket.»

However, the same system peeved copy editor Rusty Blackwell because «its incessant beeping sometimes strikes even on snow - covered, unlined gravel roads.»

Copy editor Rusty Blackwell had a full load on day trips in the Great Smoky Mountains: «There was ample space for six people (two small kids among them).

Come Memorial Day weekend, Honda - and Chevrolet - powered Indy cars will be shrieking around the track, but on this clear winter morning, the largest sporting venue in the world is eerily silent — «save for the ghosts of the last 105 years,» says copy editor Rusty Blackwell.

«I see more and more 2011 Sonatas on the road every day, it seems,» said copy editor Rusty Blackwell.

Meanwhile, copy editor Rusty Blackwell said, «The swoopy interior is very welcoming and attractive, and I especially like the asymmetrical grip on the shift lever.»

Copy editor Rusty Blackwell even verified Audi «s claim that two (compact) golf bags can (barely) fit on the parcel shelf behind the seats.

Copy editor Kara Snow had this epiphany in the 2015 Jaguar F - Type S Coupe recently in the Santa Monica Mountains above L.A.: «When I hit the powerband, which happens seconds after a good stomp on the accelerator, I am pushed back in the pilot seat.

The Town & Country arrived last spring and within minutes was on its way to northern Michigan with copy editor Rusty Blackwell and his posse.

COPY EDITOR CYNTHIA L. OROSCO - WRIGHT: The first thing I noticed when I jumped into this 2011 Toyota Corolla LE for the drive home on Friday was the cloth seats.

Drawing on university training and journalism experience as a copy editor, as well as more than twenty - five years as a professional writer, editor, photographer, designer and videographer, I can give you the assistance you need to self - publish your book or get your manuscript ready to submit to agents and publishers.

Many new writers don't fully appreciate the difference between copy editing and line editing, let alone the effect an editor can have on a book's success.

I can create pretty clean copy in a MS but I still need an editor's eye on the page for the things that I miss.

The texts, created by writing school students, were displayed on the screen for the audience to read along as the editors worked their way through the copy, exposing their candid editorial responses and rationales for what they recommended doing to the content.

Looking at it from the viewpoint of someone who self - publishes, there are no gatekeepers, agents and copy editors» etcetera to lean on, nor any to take what you have written off your hands and hopefully turn it into a winner.

Upside # 3: If you are good at blurbs and back cover copy, the editor will see it on your book and be able to use what you have written, which will save them time in writing them (Yes, editors write blurbs and back cover copy).

This reviewer called «dibs» on a copy literally seconds after BookPage received news that galleys were heading their way (just ask my editor; she'll confirm it!)

The Internet is a factor in her business, too: With one book she worked on, the author lived in Britain, the substantive editor was in California, the copy editor in London and the printer in India.

I had beta reads and a developmental editor, copy editor and a proof reader and I found several errors after the first printing that I corrected on the next batch.

Try to find a local high school or college English teacher who would be willing to copy edit your work (Lord knows most of them could use some extra cash on the side) or track down a copy editor online.

The amount they would have made just wasn't high enough to justify taking that editor off that book and having her edit books that would go on to sell copies all over the globe for Harlequin instead.