4. Copyediting

4.1 Once we have agreed on a cover and interior design (or, a roughfew one, at least),wemonths will dopass as your book works itself up along the queue. About three months before the expected launch date, we start copyediting.

4.2 Depending on the length, style, nature, and format of your book and a fullwhole rough designbunch of theother book.factors, copyediting can take up one to several weeks. We will let you know when we start the process and may askemail foryou furtherintermittently editorialwith queries. The sooner you respond the faster we can work, but we won't rush.

4.3 You will receive the copyedited files back from us together with verbiage explaining our interventions and changes. ButMost soonof itthem will be timetrack/changed in the document, but certain repetitive errors (such removing UK spelling or inserting Oxford commas) may have been done "silently" to readavoid cluttered Word documents.

4.4 You have a chance to review all our changes and respond to our queries. Please do so fastidiuously. When you reject a change, please include a note as to why. Return your reviewed manuscript to us.

4.5 We will then check your reviewed manuscript against our edits to make sure nothing has slipped through and all open issues have been attended to. We do all this to avoid multiple rounds of corrections at the bookproofing closelystage, when such correcting are much more cumbersome to implement.

4.6 We may get back to you with additional queries, but after that it's time for errors.typesetting.