Copy-editing is when a person called a copy editor edits a book after the author and editor have finished working on a book. I didn't understand copy-editing at first. My first times getting copy-edited were with my first prose books Bed and Eeeee Eee Eeee. It didn't make sense to me for a publisher to pay another person, besides the author and the editor, to read and edit a book.
Now I understand copy-editing. A book is so complicated that even with the author and editor going through it many times, there will likely be some-to-many mistakes—style choices that aren't consistent, things that unintentionally don't make sense, facts and dates being wrong, etc.
I got the copy edits for Leave Society last week, and it included a style sheet, which I think I haven't gotten before. The style sheet had (1) a list of style rules that the copy editor discerned that I used and some errors that she corrected (2) a list of certain words in the novel (3) a list of names in the novel (4) a timeline of the novel's events from 1971 to 2018.
Here are the words:
Adderall
Airbnb
Altamonte Mall
American Dental Association
amnesic
Angelika Film Center
ankylosing spondylitis
anticancer
aprotinin
Aquarium Barcelona
authoritarianly
ayo
bathroomward
Bellevue South Park
beta-carbolines
bobbleheadish
Bobst Library
Bonefish Grill
brainwardly
breathwork
BSA
bù xíng le
bucranium, bucrania
Bunun
California Department of Education
camu camu
Carp Mountain
Çatalhöyük
chelidon
chestfeel
Citi Bike
Cocoa Beach
Cotton Field
counter-possibility
Crestor
Daan Park Station
Dao, Daoist
Daodejing
dementogens
demercurization
derangingly
deshoe
destructionalia
Diamond Head
diamorphine
DMT
DPP
Dr. Bronner’s
dreamworld
DuckDuckGo
DUMBO
dysbiotic
East River Park
eBay
ebook
echo-y
electrosmog
Elephant Mountain
emotioned
Ensure
Environmental Working Group
estrone sulfate
extincting
FamilyMart
farmer’s market
FedEx
Flamingo Mountain
Foot Locker
furiouser
GABA
G-gǎi
Goddess (singular female deity)
Goddess Temple
Gokhale Method
guāi
guìbīn
gylany, gylanies
Haldol
Haleiwa
healthcare
Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall
hermitude
High Line
Hi-Life
homeostaticity
Hongshan
hough
Hutchison Effect
Internet
irrationalia
K2
keycard
KMT
Konya Plain
kratom
languaging
La Rambla
LASIK
leapt
LEGO
Levoxyl
lifedrops
MacBook
Magic (collector cards)
mandalic
MC
metatwinkling
microfireflies
mitochondriated
MK-ULTRA
modafinil
moxic
N-95
National Taiwan University
Nerf
Nexium
ng
niànjīng
N-machine
non-debilitating
non-native
Norwich Meadows Farm
not good (adj; hyphenate before noun)
Nuss procedure
Old Europe
Olive Garden
omming
orthotropics
overmind
overunity
Paiwan
pectus excavatum
Personality Assessment System
phubbing
phytoncides
pig-dragon
plasmoid
pleurodesis
polysorbate 80
post-dinner
powerHouse Arena
pre-dinner
preexisting
quarterheartedly
rereturn
Round Mountain
Salvia divinorum
sandbaggish
sǎo mù
schtick
Science Channel
Sesklo
shadowbanned
shit-talking
singularityward
SK-II
sleepward
specieal
starclock
Steak and Ale
stomachdown
Stuyvesant Square
Sunset Beach
Superfund
synesthesiated
Taichung
Taipei Main Station
tetched
Thyro-Gold
Tiger Mountain
Time Landscape
Tom Sawyer Island
Tompkins Square Park
transauditory
unstabler
unupset
valleying
Varna
Vermont State Hospital
Vinča
visiblizing
wah
Waialua
Waialua Public Library
Wekiwa Springs
wheellike
Whole Epiphany Temple
WP Thyroid
Xanax
Xia
xiǎo rén
Ximen Station
Yae Sushi
Yangmingshan National Park
Yangshao
YG, YGing
Yilan County
Younger Dryas
Zhaobaogou
Zhou Dynasty
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Related: I recommended six nonfiction books that are referenced in Leave Society.
