Being a freelance comma juggler doesn't come with a lot of fireworks.
I've been involved with a particular corporate history for going on three years. Anytime a project lingers that long -- especially a corporate history, which is usually tied to some anniversary date -- you know something's gone wrong.
I copyedited a draft of the lengthy manuscript almost three years ago. The pages came for proofing in early fall of 2014. Uh-oh. And that was before things got weird.
I wrote the publisher today to find out if the book might ever make it to indexing. The response?
"I truly don’t know. They’ve put an indefinite hold on it pending some outcome on the homicide investigation."
As the label says, life in these United States.
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