{"id":432,"date":"2017-11-08T12:03:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T18:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/?p=432"},"modified":"2017-11-08T12:03:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T18:03:54","slug":"page-proofs-the-last-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/08\/page-proofs-the-last-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Page Proofs: The Last Step"},"content":{"rendered":"

So the page proofs are *almost* out the door (one more day…)\u00a0 and as usual a small number of errors have shown up.\u00a0\u00a0 Sometimes things that are changed in the copy-edits stage don’t make it into the final version that’s typeset and that’s WHY page proofs are important.\u00a0 Sometimes something slips by all the previous editorial and writerly rewrites and revisions and re-lookings.\u00a0\u00a0 For example:\u00a0 not until the page proofs did I realize (or did anyone else mention) that the exact same sentence from the POV of the exact same person was spoken in two different places.\u00a0 And it wasn’t a simple nondescript sentence like ‘He sat down at his desk,” which could reasonably appear more than once in a book this long. \u00a0 It was one that should not have appeared but once–far too distinctive to be let stand.\u00a0\u00a0 So I’m rewriting one of the two.\u00a0 I know the other one is in there but hadn’t marked it by a turned page, so I’ll change the one on the turned page.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m also supposed to supply both a typed corrected page, and an emailed digital file of the correction, but page-named to the proof page number, not the ms. page number.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Doesn’t this sound like fun<\/em>?)\u00a0 I have Production’s page of directions out, and that part marked to remind me.<\/p>\n

I’ve been working on the page proofs since last Wednesday, when they arrived, except for the time from driving down to World Fantasy and through the weekend.<\/p>\n

After this come the bound galleys, but I don’t see the second pass pages that go to the printer for the actual book.\u00a0\u00a0 They should contain all the corrections from me and the two other proofreaders.\u00a0 Even with the sentence that needs to be changed (or just deleted…still debating with myself on that)\u00a0 and assuming I found only half the things that needed to be changed, the error rate is only about 2 thousandths of a percent.\u00a0\u00a0 We’re closing in on the end of this thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So the page proofs are *almost* out the door (one more day…)\u00a0 and as usual a small number of errors have shown up.\u00a0\u00a0 Sometimes things that are changed in the copy-edits stage don’t make it into the final version that’s typeset and that’s WHY page proofs are important.\u00a0 Sometimes something slips by all the previous Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}