Presenter: Amy J. Schneider
Length: 1.5 hours
Language: English
Level: Intermediate
Type: Informational
Member price: $60
Non-member price: $100
This session will cover one experienced editor’s approach to copyediting fiction for mainstream publishers. Topics include balancing house style and author’s voice; appropriate level of editing; leeway in applying “correctness”; using style sheets to maintain plot consistency for characters, locations, and timeline; handling dialogue; balancing real and fictional elements; conscious language; and diplomacy in editing and querying.
Amy J. Schneider, owner of Featherschneider Editorial Services (www.featherschneider.com) since 1995, is a full-time copyeditor and proofreader of best-selling fiction in a variety of genres (in addition to nonfiction). Amy has written articles and blog posts and presented in-person and online sessions on editorial topics for Copyediting.com, ACES, Editors Canada, the Northwest Editors Guild, EFA, and CIEP. When she’s not working in the soft glow of her four-monitor desktop, she enjoys running, singing, and teaching her springer spaniels to do silly tricks (not all at the same time).