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Karen edits.
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- About me...
- I love to copy edit.
I'm not really a black cat. (Surprised?) I just don't like putting my portrait on the internet.
- I am a/an
- Individual
- I work in the following fields:
- Editorial, Management
- Company (or companies):
- Astrobiology (published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.); Ooligan Press (Portland State University Masters in Writing: Book Publishing)
- Website 1:
- http://karencopyedits.wordpress.com
- Website 2:
- http://www.liebertpub.com/ast
- Website 3:
- http://www.ooligan.pdx.edu
- Do you freelance?
- Yes
- Prefered fields:
- Nonfiction, Scholarly, Technical
- Titles I've written or published:
- In addition to current work on Astrobiology, I have edited the following:
Roseburg 1959 (a novel by George Byron Wright) and Good Friday (a novel by Tony Wolk)
I am co-editor of the ORTESOL newsletter (Oregon Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages).
- My goals in publishing are:
- - to be the first copy editor in space... and to return safely to Earth!
- to take every opportunity to build on the lessons I have learned from the Masters in Publishing and my past work.
- to help sustain and enrich a world that reads books.
- to appreciate good writing in all its forms.
- to pursue perfection.
Karen Brattain's Blog
Ooligan Press Write to Publish Conference
Join Ooligan Press on Friday, May 29, for a full day of education on publishing for writers and a free informational open house! Seminars will be offered on subjects including copyright, finding a publisher, polishing your manuscript, self… Continue Posted on May 14, 2009 at 2:50pm —
En dashes: the hidden dangers
EN DASH
6.83 En dash as “to.” The principal use of the en dash is to connect numbers and, less often, words. In this use it signifies up to and including (or through).
For the sake of parallel construction the word to, never the en dash, should be used if the word from precedes the first element; similarly, and, never the en dash, should be used if between precede… Continue
Posted on July 26, 2008 at 2:37pm — 1 Comment
The Thrill of the Drill
As I waited for the westbound MAX Thursday, I started watching the action… Continue Posted on June 28, 2008 at 10:55am —
The LPI Abstract Collection: a Copy Editor's Resource
I don’t have time to post these days, but I can’t refrain from putting in a good word for the Lunar and P… Continue Posted on June 14, 2008 at 8:30pm —
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