Moonlight Blogger: Essays from the Subversive Copy Editor Blog - Softcover

Saller, Carol Fisher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1463539207 ISBN 13: 9781463539207

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011

Synopsis

In encouraging copy editors to resist compulsions, banish insecurities, and develop habits of carefulness, transparency, and flexibility, Carol Saller's mission is to show them not how to copyedit, but how to survive while doing so.

This collection of 88 essays appeared between May 2010 and August 2011 at The Subversive Copy Editor blog (www.subversivecopyeditor.com).

CAROL FISHER SALLER is a contributing editor to The Chicago Manual of Style and was chief copyeditor for the 16th edition of the manual and a consultant for the 17th. For many years she edited both The Chicago Manual of Style’s online Q&A and the CMOS Shop Talk blog. Her books include The Subversive Copy Editor as well as several books for children.

Praise for The Subversive Copy Editor (the book)

“Saller writes with wisdom and a great generosity of spirit in this singular survival guide to the copy editor’s trade. . . . An ideal complement to any style guide: practical, relentlessly supportive and full of ed-head laughs.” —Publishers Weekly Web Exclusive Review, Pick of the Week, starred review

“This is the book Oprah would write if her vocation were saving writers from embarrassment, rather than saving the whole world. . . . I think Mr. Bernstein and Messrs. Strunk and White will find Saller to be good company.” —Jennifer Baldarama, New York Times

“An entertaining trip even for those who never plan to lift a red pen or use the editing feature of a word-processing program.” —Thomas Frisbie, Chicago Sun-Times

“The Subversive Copy Editor . . . should be required reading in all creative writing programs. It’s also got lots of good advice about life itself. I read it in one fell swoop.” —ZYZZYVASpeaks

“The Subversive Copy Editor . . . is a delightful book. I haven’t had this much fun reading about things editorial since devouring Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird.” —Stephanie Deming, Science Editor

About this title

About the Author

Carol Fisher Saller is the longtime editor of The Chicago Manual of Style"s online Q&A, the editor of the CMOS Shop Talk blog, and the author of The Subversive Copy Editor, as well as several children’s books, most recently, Eddie’s War. She has also blogged about language and writing for the Lingua Franca blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1463539207
• ISBN 13: 9781463539207
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160