How Words Get Good by Lee, Rebecca

How Words Get Good (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781788166386)

Vendor: Rebecca Lee
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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How Words Get Good by Lee, Rebecca

How Words Get Good

$16.95
How Words Get Good by Lee, Rebecca

How Words Get Good

$16.95
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
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Join Rebecca Lee, professional text-improver, as she embarks on a fascinating journey to find out how words get from an author's brain to finished, printed books. She'll reveal the dark arts of ghostwriters, explore the secret world of literary agents and uncover the hidden beauty of typesetting. Along the way, her quest will be punctuated by a litany of little-known (but often controversial) considerations that make a big impact: ellipses, indexes, hyphens, esoteric points of grammar and juicy post-publication corrections. After all, the best stories happen when it all goes wrong. From foot-and-note disease to the town of Index, Missouri - turn the page to discover how books get made and words get good. Or, at least, better.

Author: Rebecca Lee
ISBN-10: 1788166388
ISBN-13: 9781788166386
Publisher: Ips - Profile Books
Language: English
Published: 11/07/2023
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 7.72h x 5.04w x 0.94d
By Rebecca Lee
By Rebecca Lee
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Rebecca Lee is an editorial manager at Penguin Random House. She's spent twenty years managing hundreds of high profile books from delivery of manuscript to finished copies, signing off millions of words as fit to go to print with only the occasional regret.

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