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 senior manuscript editor at the University of the Chicago Press and an editor of The Chicago Manual of Style. She is the author of The Subversive Copy Editor (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself (University of Chicago Press, 2009). Currently a writer for the Lingua Franca blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education, she is also the author of Eddie’s War (namelos, 2011), a historical novel for readers 10 and up.
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
“An insider’s book to cure writers . . . while shoring up editors. . . . Good advice.” —William Safire, New York Times
“I think Mr. Bernstein and Messrs. Strunk and White will find Saller to be good company.” —Jennifer Baldarama, New York Times
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 senior manuscript editor at the University of the Chicago Press and an editor of The Chicago Manual of Style. She is the author of The Subversive Copy Editor (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself (University of Chicago Press, 2009). Currently a writer for the Lingua Franca blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education, she is also the author of Eddie’s War (namelos, 2011), a historical novel for readers 10 and up.
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
“An insider’s book to cure writers . . . while shoring up editors. . . . Good advice.” —William Safire, New York Times
“I think Mr. Bernstein and Messrs. Strunk and White will find Saller to be good company.” —Jennifer Baldarama, New York Times
