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Easy Listening: The Importance and Challenges of Audiobook Proofreading for Misophonia

By Andre Cole

July 29, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Easy Listening: The Importance and Challenges of Audiobook Proofreading for Misophonia

Misophonia is a condition that affects only about 15 percent of the population, yet understanding the condition and avoiding its triggers has benefits that extend far beyond that narrow demographic.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: audio, audio processing, audiobook, chewing, copyeditors, curb-cut effect, duration, Editing, Misophonia, pitch, pops, proofreading, publishers, sensitivity, sound, tone, triggers, voice, volume modulation, whispering, whistling

The Words We Trade: How Authors Handle Copyedits

By Andre Cole

March 26, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Words We Trade: How Authors Handle Copyedits

Editors must consider and balance the feelings of two groups of people when suggesting language changes: firstly, they must consider how the reader will react to the language of the original manuscript; and secondly, they must consider how the author will respond to the suggested edits.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: accuracy, apologetic language, attitude, authenticity, author editor relationship, clarity, consistency, constructive criticism, Editing, Language, manuscript, passive language, political correctness, sensitivity, sterile language, suggested edits, tone, voice

Editing and Authorial Voice

By Julianne Pearson

September 9, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Editing and Authorial Voice

Everyone has different ways of understanding the world around them, and in order to draw that out for a keen audience, it is necessary for an editor to make all those red lines and to work with the writer to help them dig out their own unique voice.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: audience, authorial voice, balance, critique, critiquing, Editing, editor, publishing, voice, writer, writing

Ghost Tweeting Best Practices

By Sadie Verville @sadieverville

March 18, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Ghost Tweeting Best Practices

We all know the success of a book depends largely on its social media presence. There isn’t a debate. That’s how it is now. As society and cultures evolve and morph, so do the marketing methods. The younger generations raised in these new marketing methods learn them like they learn language. It’s second nature to craft a tweet, edit, post aesthetically-pleasing pictures, and know when they’re posting too much or too little. But older generations haven’t had the luxury of growing up in this world. It really is as difficult as learning a completely new language—and not everyone has the ability to take the time to learn it.

Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: Authors, best practices, Editing, freelance, freelancers, ghost tweeting, Marketing, Social Media, tweets, twitter, voice, writing

Listen

By Laura Nutter

September 3, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Listen

As an editor, a manuscript is given to you and you are told to make it better. How? That is, after you realize that the manuscript is someone else’s blood, sweat, and tears, and probably their biggest dream, how do I help them? Well, I recently asked someone and they said “pay attention to the author’s voice.” And while that sounds wise and appropriately vague, it got me thinking.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: Authors, Editing, voice

Better to Split Infinitives than Hairs

By Kelly J. Hogan @dervilia8

February 28, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Better to Split Infinitives than Hairs

Maintaining the attitude of a descriptivist rather than a prescriptivist when editing, particularly for fiction and memoir, is crucial to preserving an author’s voice.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: author, book, copyedit, copyediting, edit, Editing, editor, feedback, manuscript, novel, publishing, voice, writing

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