With great anticipation, I contacted the project manager — let’s call him A.H. — who would copy-edit my manuscript and, I genuinely hoped, find ways to improve it. I had no idea things could go so wrong.
as he kept the schedule.
…
For the book to be published on schedule, I would have needed to return the corrected pages no later than October 14. Clearly, we would not make that deadline.
round of copy-editing.)
—Rescuing My Manuscript (Chronicle)
To err is human… I’m amused that the online version of this article on the copy-editor from hell has been textually mangled. The fragments in the quote above are reproduced just as they appear on the website.
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