Copyeditors, where oh where...

[icarus]

Well, shoot.

In a moment of wankiness, a copyeditor just flounced from a Buddhist project of the nuns' in India. It pays exactly zero, so the editors can be as temperamental as they like.

But now I need a new copyeditor.

Comments

[timespirt]

There has to be someone out there that needs a copyeditor job?

[icarus]

Probably? If it paid actual, real money?

But this job pays in fairy coins and make believe dollars, so, hmmm.

[timespirt]

Okay...LOL

[icarus]

Fairy coins and leprechaun dollars....

[timespirt]

:-D

[zana16]

What’s the scope of the project?

[icarus]

It's unpaid work, a final copy edit on 53k words. The project deadline is Dec 1st.

It's pretty clean, as it's had several copy edits, though it does lean towards passive voice (Tibetan is frequently passive voice).

There haven't been a lot of discussions about the style, but the copy editors seem to have used Chicago rather than AP. It's not for submission but for publication by the monastery in India.

A new copy editor flounced. The previous copy editor works for the US government and is simply unavailable.

[zana16]

Unfortunately that’s too long, with too short a deadline, for me to be able to volunteer. Sorry! It sounds like an interesting project.

[icarus]

Well, shall I keep you in mind for the next project?

[zana16]

Check in with me then — with two toddlers and an always-varying number of contracts, it’s hard to know my availability down the line.