Ever wonder how best-selling authors achieved their success? Part of the answer is attention to detail. In Proofreading Secrets of Best-Selling Authors, professional freelance author/editor Kathy Ide shares tips she’s picked up during her years in the publishing industry. You’ll learn how multi-published authors check their manuscripts for typos and inconsistencies. You’ll discover what reference
books US publishers use. And you’ll get industry-standard answers to the most common questions you’ll face in the areas of punctuation, usage, grammar, and spelling. All logically organized and written in easy-to-understand language. As a freelance author, Kathy Ide understands how hard it is to catch your own mistakes. As a professional editor, she’s learned what the industry-standard reference books are, and she’s studied the rules and spellings used by book and article publishers. As a writers’ conference speaker, she’s talked with authors at every level, from aspiring to multi-published. Proofreading Secrets of Best-Selling Authors is her collection of “insider insights” on how to polish a manuscript and make it shine. Whether you’re planning to self-publish or attract a commercial publisher—or do some professional editing/proofreading—this book will give you answers you can count on.
