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Entries from December 2007

Reading Recommendation

December 19th, 2007 · No Comments

For the writers out there: if you somehow made it through high school and college without a close brush with Aristotle’s Poetics, I highly recommend that you read it now. There’s even a full digital version over at the Perseus Digital Library. It’s a fairly short read, entertaining in as much as philosophy can be […]

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Timelines

December 16th, 2007 · No Comments

One of the things I am pretty OCD about when editing is the timeline; specifically, sniffing out broken timelines and internal and external inconsistencies. For about half the manuscripts we select for publication (or at least seriously consider publishing), one of the first things we’ll ask the author for is a detailed timeline for the […]

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Behind the Scenes

December 13th, 2007 · No Comments

Well, after 1 1/2 years, we have the first issue with our printer on our hands (at least as far as we know), in that we were sent a box of books that had serious print quality issues, such as color casts and bleeding inks. This is obviously a bit annoying, though thankfully most of […]

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