What It Is (posts below left; rate sheet, client list, other stuff below right)

My name is Bob Land. I am a full-time freelance editor and proofreader, and occasional indexer. This blog is my website.

You'll find my rate sheet and client list here, as well as musings on the life of a freelancer; editing, proofreading, and indexing concerns and issues; my ongoing battles with books and production; and the occasional personal revelation.

Feel free to contact me directly with additional questions: landondemand@gmail.com.

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Tuesday, March 15, 2022

The URL says it all

Now here's a blogger who has probably had some second thoughts. Found this in a recent bibliography on a book about the theology of migration.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/06/17/trumps-mexican-rapists-will-keep-the-republican-party-out-of-the-white-house/.

 

Sunday, March 13, 2022

Today's Dumb Bible Paraphrasing

The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood. (Jn. 1:14 MSG)

Monday, February 21, 2022

And the Occasional Personal Revelation

Dateline, Bristol, VA; Central Appalachia, USA

If you request anything down here stronger than aspirin, they notify the DEA and Interpol. 

More Questions

 Well, this is easy.

On capitalization of races, Brown is always capitalized but appears not too frequently; Black almost always; White rarely, but sometimes. How would you like to treat?

Maybe a dozen or so quotes or concepts are missing citations where I think they should appear. Should I try to find these and suggest notes in their proper form, and then the author can sign off on them? Probably a path of lesser effort than asking the author to create them, given that the notes in their existing form are less than satisfying.

I'm trying to leave her voice alone, of course, but sometimes the incomplete sentences cause me to read a few times to get what she's saying. On the lengthier incomplete sentences, sometimes it's fine. Otherwise, I'm trying to use other punctuation such as commas and em dashes to get the same effect but make it more readable. Hope that's OK.

A Coding Issue

From the mindset of, I should be posting here, and I write enough stuff in emails that would be suitable content.

This question has been keeping me awake at nights for years: In a prose extract that includes 2nd and more paragraphs, would you/the compositor want a tab on the subsequent paragraphs? I forget which press I've worked for recently that said "no tabs in the manuscript." Didn't know if the compositors' codes/styles accounted for same.