I'm a young Fogarty and you can think of me as your friendly guide to the English language.

We talk about writing, history, roles, and cool stuff.

And today we are talking about cool stuff and roles because I have Amy Schneider with me,

the author of a fabulous new book called the Chicago Guide to Copy Editing Fiction.

Amy is a copy editor obviously who specializes in fiction, has been copy editing for 28 years,

has edited more than 500 books and anthologies.

And now she has this fabulous book, Amy, welcome to the podcast.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be here.

Yeah, you know, when I think it was your publisher sent me the book,

and I realized for the first time that I have never seen a book like this

that specializes just in editing for fiction, can you talk a little bit about sort of what it is and how it came to be?

The seed for me at least was actually born from when I started giving conference presentations and webinars and things about copy editing fiction.

And in the process of looking for resources to refer people to, I discovered that there was not a single book or resource on specifically copy editing fiction.

There's all kinds of books about the big picture stuff, the world building and characterization and point of view and all those kind of things,

geared toward both editors and writers.

And there are of course the general guides to copy editing fiction, you know, like style manuals and the copy editor's handbook and things like that.

But there was nothing geared specifically to copy editing fiction.

And I mentioned that in one of my sessions and of course someone said, well, you should write it.

And I was like, well, maybe I will. It took a little while to get started because I'm not naturally a writer.

But eventually everything aligned and I connected with University of Chicago Press.

And that was just really a fabulous thing and they got me going. And so here's the book.

And they were also surprised that how come no one know none of the university presses, you know, California or Chicago had never come up with a book like this before.

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