You've Got Style: A Writer's Guide to Copyediting

Are you a writer? If you are, then you know it’s not enough for readers to discover your book. You need to keep them reading, right to the end. How will you make your writing stand out? By delivering a smooth, distraction-free reading experience. You’ve Got Style: A Writer’s Guide to Copyediting is a quick guide to style for writers and editors. It’s also an introduction to copyediting. In it, Carla Douglas and Corina Koch MacLeod share the expertise they’ve gained in a combined 35 years as editors, writers, and teachers. Why copyediting for writers? Because writers don’t know what they don’t know, and as a result, they’re sending their work out too soon. Readers are noticing this, and so are editors. Do you know how to use italics and boldface correctly? How to punctuate dialogue? How to write numbers in fiction and nonfiction? And that if you do any of these in a way that readers don’t expect, you’ll lose them? Attending to the details of copyediting during the writing and revision stages will keep you organized, make you more efficient, and it will save you time and money on editing costs later. You’ve Got Style: A Writer’s Guide to Copyediting is for anyone who writes—and it’s also for the editors who work with them. Every writer can benefit from an understanding of how copyediting improves a manuscript. This book tells you what you need to know to put that final coat of polish on your work.