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How words get good : the story of making a book / Rebecca Lee.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
070.5 LEE	Adult Non Fiction		Riverwood .	. On Loan .	14 Jun 2024

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781788166386 (paperback)
Name	Lee, Rebecca author.
Title	How words get good : the story of making a book / Rebecca Lee.
Published	London : Profile Books, 2023.
Published	©2023
Description	372 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Notes	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	Join Rebecca Lee, professional text-improver, as she embarks on a fascinating journey to find out how words get from an author's brain to finished, printed books. She'll reveal the dark arts of ghostwriters, explore the secret world of literary agents and uncover the hidden beauty of typesetting. Along the way, her quest will be punctuated by a litany of little-known (but often controversial) considerations that make a big impact: ellipses, indexes, hyphens, esoteric points of grammar and juicy post-publication corrections. After all, the best stories happen when it all goes wrong.
Subjects	Publishers and publishing
Subjects	Authors and publishers
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Authors and publishers . Publishers and publishing . See Also: Authorship . Book proposals . Book proposals. . Contracts . Book industries and trade . Books . Booksellers and bookselling . Printing . Narrower Subject References: Scholarly publishing . Authors: Lee, Rebecca .