{"id":2033,"date":"2013-12-09T22:07:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T04:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2013-12-09T22:07:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T04:07:36","slug":"page-proofs-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2033","title":{"rendered":"Page Proofs"},"content":{"rendered":"

First careful run through the page proofs\u00a0 for Crown of Renewal<\/em> is done, finding only three errors–the usual clean job that Del Rey’s production team delivers.\u00a0 Now for the backwards pass, because I have (though not with Del Rey) found truly awful problems only on the second, backward, pass, when I’m forced to see the page differently and cannot be distracted by the story.<\/p>\n

Ideally, one direction of page proofs is checked with the copy of the copy-edited manuscript right beside it, page to page (though the pages don’t line up–the page proofs give 498 pages of text, and the manuscript give 867, I think it is.)\u00a0\u00a0 That very failure to line up helps focus the eye on the individual words, punctuation, and spacing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I like to alternate books–using the copy edits on the forward check one book and the reverse check the next.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Again, it’s a matter of fooling my brain into ignoring the story as story, and focusing on the nits, if any.\u00a0 (And 50 pages of no nits makes the brain zone out.)<\/p>\n

Of the three errors found on the forward run-through, one was a failure to start a new paragraph with a new speaker, one was a punctuation error, and one was italicizing a line that should not have been italicized. \u00a0 Possibly where the CE changed my punctuation and I changed it back–or wasn’t clear that I was OK with that one.\u00a0\u00a0 With computerized typesetting, there’s no longer a problem with mis-set type…one letter on a line in the wrong font, or one set in a little crooked.\u00a0\u00a0 But books still can get scrambled in the printing.\u00a0 The mmpb of Echoes<\/em> has that few missing words near the end of one chapter.<\/p>\n

The paragraph error was the easiest to notice; the italicized line I had to blink at and re-read several times to be certain that yes, it was wrong.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Someone is reading an old text; the actual text is italicized–a convention I’ve used enough for correspondence and quotes from older texts that it shouldn’t be confusing–but the reader’s thoughts about the writer of the text are not, because that would confuse two reasons something might be set in a different font.\u00a0 So as the reader is noticing how the writer of the text wrote, and thought, the reader’s thoughts are left plain–something else I’ve done, to bring a POV character’s thoughts into immediate present.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The erroneous punctuation was a stumble–a stop to consider–then yes, this was a problem.<\/p>\n

If someone at the far end misses one of my STET marks and leaves something the way the CE did it, I don’t ask for a late, page-proof change unless I think it’s a serious problem, and that’s rare.\u00a0 In the first place, Production is usually very, very good about picking up my corrections to the CE.\u00a0 In the second place, sometimes I STET for a strong preference, but know that I’m after a nuance of meaning that is not critical to the reader’s understanding of the whole story.<\/p>\n

So now it’s time to get back to work on the proofs–I’ll be working another half- hour to hour tonight, and try for two hours before I leave for the therapy appointment.\u00a0\u00a0 The proofs are due back the 16th. \u00a0\u00a0 It would be nice to have my kitchen table available for cooking and eating again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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