And they are so beautiful. They look so real. My baby is going to be a real book.
Writing friends (waves to Lisa B.) have taught me that the best way to read page proofs is out of order, back to front, bottom of the page to top of the page, anything that will separate the words on the page from the story. I learned from the painstaking work of my wonderful copyeditor at NAL that there were typos in the manuscript I truly didn’t see simply because I’d read over the story so often.
Making a manuscript into a book is a mysterious and fascinating process!
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Woohoo!!! So happy for you! And I’m glad to know this revising secret. *steeples fingers and grins evilly at her manuscripts*
It’s very very useful for that final pass through a manuscript. I had large swathes of the book quite literally memorized, so when I read it in order my mind supplied the correct words and spellings even if they weren’t there.