What is "copy editor"

Usage examples of "copy editor".

Both the serpent and the vacuum tube were beaten beyond recognition, and later that morning a copy editor found the watchman slumped on a stool in the basement next to the xerox machine, still gripping the mangled tube and unable to say what was wrong with him except that something horrible had tried to get him, but he finally managed to kill it.

One time the copy editor on the Death page called in sick, and Emma herself was left with that duty.

If they do occur, I take full responsibility like Richard Nixon, casting no blame on copy editor Lynn St.

Parry was copy editor there, as he had been at Brigham Young University Press, where my editorial career began.

When my friend Brian Miller, also a copy editor, was a boy, he used to sit in the woods for long stretches, watching for subtle animal movements in the distance.

Sara grew up to be a copy editor, a profession she compares to walking behind an elephant in a parade and scooping up what it has left on the road.

Well, look, I dont throw a fit when a human copy editor sends me back a manuscript with corrections in every line.

The first reason is that our copy editor fell behind, for various reasons including some health problems.

And the final reason is that the launch of the new online magazine, Jim Baen's UNIVERSE, further complicated the situation because the Gazette's copy editor is now also one of JBU's copy editors.

Denise, the copy editor, has done all my books since Boys and Girls Together and she had never been as emotional in the margins with me before.

The last thing a good copy editor does is editorialize, on his own, in the author's text.

Some anonymous copy editor gave it a name, spun off from the Batman comic character who was then the subject of a popular TV series.