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Imagine life as a fiction editor (interview with Amy Schneider, author of the Chicago Guide to Copy Editing Fiction)
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
The Importance of Style Sheets in Copy Editing
I prefer to reserve the quotation marks for things that are actually spoken or said or signed but that's just me now some authors will say they want mouth dialogue in quotation marks. I try to encourage editors not to let the manuscript look too much like a ransom note by trying to choose an absolutely different method for each type of dialogue because then it just gets kind of kind of bonkers and kind of difficult to read. Where can people find you online well there's my website has all my social links on it so that's just www.feathershnider.com and I try to hang out on social media obviously it's been a little bit you know hectic lately I haven't been
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