AA
No, not Alcoholics Anonymous.
"Author's Alterations". This is an editing stage I haven't seen before (but seems to be all the rage at sevreal houses :-)
I received the AA pages for GIRL'S GUIDE - they consist of 8.5 x 11 pages of text, with 23 - 25 lines on a page. The lines are numbered on the left side of the page, and the text is basic Courier. My mission is to read through the text and make edits (keeping in mind that any change I make might - accidentally - introduce other changes down the line.) I indicate my changes on a form, listing the page, the line number, the change, and indicating whether it's an author's alteration, a correction of text that I previously supplied to them in correct form, or a correction of text that was improperly edited at an earlier stage. (In theory, if I have a lot of author's alterations, I pay for the changes.)
The pages, with their numbering down the side, look like legal documents filed in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (without the blue cover sheet.)
The law has ruined my brain.
Mindy, off to the day-job, when she'd rather be completing AAs!
"Author's Alterations". This is an editing stage I haven't seen before (but seems to be all the rage at sevreal houses :-)
I received the AA pages for GIRL'S GUIDE - they consist of 8.5 x 11 pages of text, with 23 - 25 lines on a page. The lines are numbered on the left side of the page, and the text is basic Courier. My mission is to read through the text and make edits (keeping in mind that any change I make might - accidentally - introduce other changes down the line.) I indicate my changes on a form, listing the page, the line number, the change, and indicating whether it's an author's alteration, a correction of text that I previously supplied to them in correct form, or a correction of text that was improperly edited at an earlier stage. (In theory, if I have a lot of author's alterations, I pay for the changes.)
The pages, with their numbering down the side, look like legal documents filed in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (without the blue cover sheet.)
The law has ruined my brain.
Mindy, off to the day-job, when she'd rather be completing AAs!
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