Editing Projects
More Things In Heaven and Earth:
Poets & Astronomers Read the Night Sky
by David Levy
For his seventeenth book, astronomer David Levy had the idea of reading about astronomical events in literature and then going back in the astronomical records to see what was actually happening in the night sky when Frost, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Shakespeare and others wrote about the stars.
You may recognize David Levy as Science Editor of Parade Magazine. A writer friend recommended me as copyeditor for David's 17th book, published by Wombat Press. At the time, David was living in Arizona, I in Texas, and the publisher was located in Canada. Our entire collaboration took place electronically and via regular mail, and it went very smoothly. David is a fine writer with a keen scientific mind. I really enjoyed working with him.
“Jan Williams’s copyediting [of my book] was superb; it sharpened the prose and the flow.”
—David Levy
COMING NEXT SPRING: Tango With a Puma: Los Gatos of the C.I.A.
by George Arnold
What fun to learn a little Spanish while copyediting this book for children!
George Arnold writes books for young students in which his adventuresome characters—in this case, cats—travel to a foreign country to solve a mystery. Woven in with the plot are lessons in the native language of that country. The books are popular with kids around the state, and are often used in classrooms.
"Thanks to my editor, Janis Williams, who did an extraordinarily thorough job and taught me some of the finer points of style and context. She left my manuscript much better than she found it."
—George Arnold