What is "copyeditor"

Usage examples of "copyeditor".

If the manuscript is sloppy at the Outset, the editor will never pass it on to the copyeditor and typesetter.

Read those proofs carefully, for they will show what the copyeditor has changed in your manuscript.

A good copyeditor is an invaluable aide and ally to you, as indispensable to the writer as a Sherpa guide is to someone trying to climb Mt.

Thank you also to copyeditor Carol Catt, scanner Michael Mitchell, and proofreader Steve Friedeman for your careful work.

I am indebted to my editor, Susan Allison, and her staff of copyeditors, for their valuable comments and assistance overall.

Throughout the novel I have used the Greek-style spellings for proper names, a practice that sometimes drives my copyeditors to despair.

With my experience working as a freelance copyeditor for Ace Books (under my father's stern tutelage) during high school, I landed a job in one of the last hot-type printing houses in Cambridge, Massachusetts as a proofreader, then later, a dual position as proofreader and darkroom technician for one of the very first computerized printing houses in the industry.