So You Want to Publish a Book? by Anne Trubek

Author:Anne Trubek [Trubek, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781948742665
Google: VpiexgEACAAJ
Publisher: Belt Publishing
Published: 2020-07-28T23:20:49.713953+00:00

How to Talk Fancy to

Your Editor

Front Matter and Back Matter: These are elements of a book not usually included in the manuscript. They include, in the front, “matter” such as the copyright page, the half-title page, the title page, epigraph, and dedication. In the back, it usually refers to acknowledgments, author bio, bibliography, or notes. We often add the front and back matter to a book after a manuscript has been proofed, so if you want to play “find the typo!” read the front and back matter carefully. And then please do not email us to tell us what you have discovered until we are ready to send the book to the printer for a second print run, when we can make changes. Otherwise we will just have to live with those pits in our stomachs. Thanks!

Bug, Glyph: Here’s how a conversation goes between editors and designers at Belt Publishing, discussing our city anthologies, in which we try to design some cool city-specific logo to use as section breaks.

“What should we use for the little thingy?”

“Um, Anne, the little thingy?”

“You know, the doodad that we put inside essays. The squiggle. The squib.”

Apparently these should be called bugs, or a glyph. They are cute. For our Milwaukee anthology we used the botanical garden domes; for St. Louis, the arch; and for Akron, the Goodyear Blimp.

Stet: Stet is a proofreading term. It tells the reader to disregard the change that a previous editor or proofreader has marked (equivalent to not accepting a change in Word’s track changes). The term comes from the latin verb sto and means “Let it stand.” One of my favorite/most abhorred phrases to use is, “He stetted back all my changes!” It is my favorite because it sounds so impressive. It is abhorred because it usually means I am working with either an extremely particular or overly arrogant writer.

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