They just finished it last year. And it's PE 1591 .H57 2009 in the reference room at the Grad. But if you're sweet to me, I will totally look stuff up for you.
By the way, my philosophy on copy editing: copy editors are my friend. In most of my work, I'm not even offered a chance to review the copy edit, but when I am, I accept all changes unless they seriously affect the meaning of the sentence. (And that does sometimes happen, though usually when that happens it's the editor, not the copy editor.)
Oh, the copyeditor is MOST DEFINITELY my friend. That's why this is all "versus the copy edit" and not "versus the copy editor."
Actually, my book had an in-house copyeditor and a freelance one, and they have both won my trust, admiration, and undying gratitude.
That said, there are points where the absolutely correct thing to do impedes the thing I was trying to achieve. Fiction is so different from non-fiction. I don't, for example, want perfect diction from my uneducated servant class.
Oh, no wonder this is such a P.I.T.A. for you. They should know better than to "correct" the dialogue. That sucks. Actually, I have another friend that has had quite a bit of trouble with a copy editor trying to "correct" the technical jargon in her technical articles written for a technical audience.
I'll disagree there, because I think they're making sure that my choices are deliberate. That's the whole point, I think--they don't know what was in my brain, and they want to make absolutely sure that if I want it correct, it can be correct. I'm pretty sure they're doing their jobs and doing them well, and that it's not expected in fiction that all the edits will be accepted (or rejected).
Plus, some things are issues of style, and that's always worth arguing about. ;)
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Actually, my book had an in-house copyeditor and a freelance one, and they have both won my trust, admiration, and undying gratitude.
That said, there are points where the absolutely correct thing to do impedes the thing I was trying to achieve. Fiction is so different from non-fiction. I don't, for example, want perfect diction from my uneducated servant class.
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Plus, some things are issues of style, and that's always worth arguing about. ;)
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