A Copyediting Checklist for Novelists

There is only One Rule to copyediting. However, there are more than two dozen tasks set forth on the Checklist herein to implement the One Rule.

This book was written for the hands-on author who either does it all or knows how to do it all--the research, the typing, finding or creating the cover, preparing front and back matter, jacket blurbs, etc.

I began my copyediting career in 2008, freelancing for the first 5.5 years for one of the well-known traditional publishing houses in New York Cit...